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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 developmentBlog
Interview with David Richards – How to Measure Human Development?21 September 2012 The intricate dynamic between foreign aid to Africa, democratic transitions and consolidation is the topic of a series of research papers being published under the ReCom Governance & Fragility theme ...
Economic development Poverty measurement Methodology (Economics)Blog
Learning How to Promote Social Protection from Cambodia’s Garment Workers
Alisa DiCaprio Innovations in social protection systems design have moved forward quickly on the supply-side over the past decade...
Employee rights Human rights Labour lawBook Chapter
Työntekijöiden oikeudet ja sosiaaliturva KambodzassaA Book Chapter in Joona Pietarila (ed.) Kambodza kriisien jälkeen. Kirjoituksia yhteiskunnan kehityksestä ja tulevaisuuden haasteista...
Human rights Social securityWorking Paper
The Danish Model and the Globalizing Learning Economy: Lessons for Developing CountriesAlthough Denmark shares with the other four Nordic countries certain attributes, such as pragmatic protestant religion, small and homogenous population, strong social democratic parties and ambitious welfare states, it also has its own characteristic...
Economic development Economic growth Economic policyBook Chapter
The Gender Dimensions of Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Challenges in Development AidFrom the book: Making Peace Work
Conflict management Economic development projects Equality and inequalityPolicy Brief
Can We Eradicate Hunger?World hunger is prevalent yet receives relatively less attention compared to poverty. The MDGs have taken a step to address this with the resolution of halving the number of starving people in the world by 2015...
Food security Human rights HungerBook
Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights FailureDo we have a right to food?...
Agriculture Food security Human rightsBook Chapter
Realizing the Right to Food in South AsiaFrom the book: Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure
Agriculture and state Food security Food supplyBook Chapter
The Right to Food as a Fundamental Human Right: FAO's ExperienceFrom the book: Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure
Food security Human rights International agenciesWorking Paper
Enforcing the Right to Food in India: Bottlenecks in Delivering the Expected OutcomeOver the past decade, a series of events in India have brought the question of food security into sharp focus...
Food security Government accountability Human rightsWorking Paper
Realizing the Right to Food in South AsiaBasic human rights recognize the intrinsic value of freedom, only not for the value of freedom itself, but also for its instrumental role enabling an individual to choose a bundle of commodities and wellbeing...
Agriculture and state Food security Food supplyWorking Paper
The Gender Dimensions of Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Challenges in Development AidBased on analysing World Bank and other donor post-conflict reconstruction (PCR) loans and grants from rights-based, macroeconomic and microeconomic perspectives, we conclude that few PCR projects identify or address gender discrimination issues...
Conflict management Economic development projects Equality and inequalityWorking Paper
State Recognition of the Right to Food at the National LevelThis paper considers to what extent the human right to food has been recognized by countries in the world, by analysing international obligations and constitutional provisions, bearing in mind that the right to food may be either explicitly or implic...
Food security Human rights International law