Economic rights : conceptual, measurement, and policy issues / edited by Shareen Hertel, Lanse Minkler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hertel, Shareen.

Minkler, Lanse.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Distributive justice.

Human rights.

Basic needs.

Economic policy.

Social policy.

Physical Description:

xv, 403 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Contents:

1 Economic Rights: The Terrain / Shareen Hertel, Lanse Minkler 1

2 The West and Economic Rights / Jack Donnelly 37

3 Needs-Based Approach to Social and Economic Rights / Wiktor Osiatynski 56

4 Economic Rights in the Knowledge Economy: An Instrumental Justification / Albino Barrera 76

5 "None So Poor That He Is Compelled to Sell Himself": Democracy, Subsistence, and Basic Income / Michael Goodhart 94

6 Benchmarking the Right to Work / Philip Harvey 115

Section II Measurement

7 The Status of Efforts to Monitor Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights / Audrey R. Chapman 143

8 Measuring the Progressive Realization of Economic and Social Rights / Clair Apodaca 165

9 Economic Rights, Human Development Effort, and Institutions / Mwangi S. Kimenyi 182

10 Measuring Government Effort to Respect Economic and Social Human Rights: A Peer Benchmark / David L. Cingranelli, David L. Richards 214

11 Government Respect for Women's Economic Rights: A Cross-National Analysis, 1981-2003 / Shawna E. Sweeney 233

Section III Policy Issues

12 Economic Rights and Extraterritorial Obligations / Sigrun I. Skogly, Mark Gibney 267

13 International Obligations for Economic and Social Rights: The Case of the Millennium Development Goal Eight / Sakiko Fukuda-Parr 284

14 The United States and International Economic Rights: Law, Social Reality, and Political Choice / David P. Forsythe 310

15 Public Policy and Economic Rights in Ghana and Uganda / Susan Dicklitch, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann 325

16 Human Rights as Instruments of Emancipation and Economic Development / Kaushik Basu 345

17 Worker Rights and Economic Development: The Cases of Occupational Safety and Health and Child Labor / Peter Dorman 363

Appendix 1 Universal Declaration of Human Rights 379

Appendix 2 International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights 385.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521870559

0521870550

9780521690829

052169082X

OCLC:

137221649

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