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How do human rights violations affect poverty and income distribution?The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of human rights on income distribution and poverty by exploring how both aid and trade can influence poverty and income distribution through human rights...
Human rights Income inequality PovertyJournal Article
Access to What?: Legal Agency and Access to Justice for Indigenous Peoples in Latin AmericaPart of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality
Indigenous rights Human rights Legal empowermentJournal Article
Legal Empowerment and Group-Based InequalityPart of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality
Legal empowerment Ethnicity Horizontal inequalityWorking Paper
Legal empowerment and group-based inequalityLegal empowerment has become widely accepted in development policy circles as an approach to addressing poverty and exclusion...
Legal empowerment Ethnicity Horizontal inequalityWorking Paper
Constitutional social and environmental human rights and child health outcomes in Latin American countriesThis paper analyses the health-improving effects of introducing four different constitutional social and environmental human rights (health, free education, adequate living (or welfare), and environment) and the American Convention on Human Rights (A...
Human rights Constitutional economics Comparative economicsWorking Paper
Access to what?: Legal agency and access to justice for indigenous peoples in Latin AmericaIn this paper I issue a call for a primary focus on expanding and strengthening alternative, community-based justice system, as a strategy for securing the full benefits of legal agency to indigenous and other culturally distinct groups...
Indigenous rights Human rights Legal empowermentBlog
Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen on the Sustainable Development Goals
World leaders are now meeting at a special UN summit from 25–27 September to formally adopt the SDGs, which will then be implemented from 1 January 2016...
Democracy Economic development Human rightsJournal Article
‘Embedded’ Assistance: Finn Church Aid‘s Secondment in SomaliaPart of Journal Special Issue Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
Conflict management Economic assistance and foreign aid Human rightsWorking Paper
‘Embedded’ Assistance: Finn Church Aid’s Secondment in SomaliaDonors face distinct challenges in operating in fragile states and supporting the building of state capacity...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Human rights Local governmentNews
Press Release: Nordic Ministers for Development Cooperation to Helsinki - Towards Closer CooperationMinister for International Development Pekka Haavisto has invited his Nordic colleagues to Helsinki on 13–14 March. The purpose of the meeting is to enhance Nordic cooperation on development policy issues. The participants in the meetings will be...
Development aid Fragile states Development financeBlog
Report from Gender Equality Results Meeting
Roger Williamson The Danish State Secretary for Development Policy Charlotte Slente , welcomed the participants and contributors to the meeting and stressed the centrality of gender equality to Danish development policy ...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development EducationBlog
Sharing for Prosperity
17 April 2013 Minister Heikki Eidsvoll Holmås Economic growth in itself will not end poverty...
Children Democracy Economic growthBlog
We Need to Go to Zero!
Christian Friis Bach A family living in an urban slum in Sonagachi, Kolkata, India...
Equality and inequality Food security Human rightsBlog
Achieving Development Depends on all Peoples Enjoying Human Rights and Democratic Rule in their Countries
Heidi Hautala Over the last decade the international community has striven to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Thanks to global cooperation much has been achieved...
Democracy Equality and inequality Human rightsBlog
To Aid or Not to Aid?: The Case of Rwanda, DFID, and the Good Aid Debate
Omar Shahabudin McDoom What should donors do when confronted with regimes that violate important normative standards of state behavior and commit human rights abuses, war crimes or other grave ethical transgressions?...
Agriculture Criminal law DemocracyBlog
What’s in a Name?: Human Rights, Human Development, and Human Dignity
David L. Richards Over the past decades, the terms ‘human rights’ and ‘human development’ have been characterized as being: complementary to one another, purposefully distinct from one another, or synonymous for one another...
Capitalism Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development