Working Paper

• Economic development
• Human rights
• International relations

Working Paper

This diagnostic study explores the political conditions that are associated with humanitarian emergencies. It employs a risk rather than cause-effect methodology. Humanitarian emergencies are not random events. They occur most frequently in states...

• Ethnic relations
• Human rights
• Refugees

Working Paper

This paper defines a role for human rights and human rights workers in the discussion of humanitarian emergencies. The approach is to look at how human rights law, monitoring, and information can be useful in two ways: (1) to warn of an impending...

• Conflict management
• Human rights
• Humanitarian assistance

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality

• Legal empowerment
• Ethnicity
• Horizontal inequality

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality

• Indigenous rights
• Human rights
• Legal empowerment

Working Paper

Legal empowerment has become widely accepted in development policy circles as an approach to addressing poverty and exclusion. At the same time, it has received relatively little attention from political scientists and sociologists working on...

• Legal empowerment
• Ethnicity
• Horizontal inequality

Blog

by David L. Richards December 2012

David L. Richards Over the past decades, the terms ‘human rights’ and ‘human development’ have been characterized as being: complementary to one...

• Capitalism
• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development

Blog

21 September 2012 The intricate dynamic between foreign aid to Africa, democratic transitions and consolidation is the topic of a series of research...

• Economic development
• Poverty measurement
• Methodology (Economics)

Working Paper

• Discrimination in employment
• Equality and inequality
• Human rights

Policy Brief

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. A substantial and sustainable...

• Food security
• Human rights
• Hunger

Working Paper

Over the past decade, a series of events in India have brought the question of food security into sharp focus. Vast famine-affected areas versus surplus production and stocks of grains, the impact of globalization and World Trade Organization laws on...

• Food security
• Government accountability
• Human rights

Working Paper

Basic 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. The role of food, a basic necessity of...

• Agriculture and state
• Food security
• Food supply

Blog

Tax abuse is an expensive business. According to a recent report by the Tax Justice Network, avoiding or evading tax deprives governments across the...

• Tax evasion
• Tax avoidance
• Human rights

Working Paper

Based 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 inequality

Working Paper

This 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...

• Food security
• Human rights
• International law

Working Paper

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. The analysis employs data for 125 countries and...

• Human rights
• Income inequality
• Poverty