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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...
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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...
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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. A substantial and sustainable...
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Global Labour Standards versus Freedom of Choice
by Kaushik Basu The Conundrum Most reasonable people agree that workers, wherever they happen to be, should have the guarantee of certain basic rights...
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‘Embedded’ AssistancePart of Journal Special Issue Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
Working 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...
Book Chapter
Realizing the Right to Food in South AsiaPart of Book Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure
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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. But the same degree...
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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...
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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...
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The Danish Model and the Globalizing Learning EconomyAlthough 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...
Book Chapter
Political Causes of Humanitarian EmergenciesPart of Book War, Hunger, and Displacement
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How global tax dodging costs lives: New research shows a direct link to increased death ratesTax abuse is an expensive business. According to a recent report by the Tax Justice Network, avoiding or evading tax deprives governments across the...
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