Development cooperation can play an important role in progressively realizing the right to water in countries with limited financial and other resources. Some bilateral and United Nations development agencies have now included the promotion of human rights in their programming efforts. However,...

How should the responsibility of financing the realisation of economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights be divided amongst economically developing countries and economically developed States? Where a country reduces the level of protection of labour rights as a result of a bilateral investment...

This text provides an important new law and policy perspective to address conflicts and overlaps between social, environmental, and economic law. It is clearly structured with case studies and sources of further information for use in teaching sustainable development law. Contributors to this...

The IMF's PRGF is supposed to provide policy flexibility based on a PSIA of the targets it imposes. In practice, PRGF programmes have failed to incorporate this objective. Increasingly, this is leading to public embarrassment for the Fund such as that which followed revelations about limits on...