Poverty and the international economic legal system : duties to the world's poor / [edited by] Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nadakavukaren Schefer, Krista, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law and economics.

Poverty.

International law--Economic aspects.

International law.

Poor laws.

Sociological jurisprudence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xlv, 453 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Other Title:

Poverty & the International Economic Legal System

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

With a focus on how trade, foreign investment, commercial arbitration and financial regulation rules affect impoverished individuals, Poverty and the International Economic Legal System examines the relationship between the legal rules of the international economic law system and states' obligations to reduce poverty. The contributors include leading practitioners, practice-oriented scholars and legal theorists, who discuss the human aspects of global economic activity without resorting to either overly dogmatic human rights approaches or technocratic economic views. The essays extend beyond development discussions by encouraging further efforts to study, improve and develop legal mechanisms for the benefit of the world's poor and challenging traditionally de-personified legal areas to engage with their real-world impacts.

Contents:

Poverty, obligations, and the international economic legal system : what are our duties to the global poor? / Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer

Anti-poverty volume the international economic legal order? : A legal cultural critique / Colin B. Picker

Poverty, redistribution, and international trade regulation / Thomas Cottier

Trade liberalization and poverty reduction : complementary or contradictory aims? / Bryan Mercurio

God, the WTO and hunger / Christian Häberli

Does free trade matter for poverty reduction? : The case of ASEAN / Pasha L. Hsieh

Poverty alleviation through paperless trade / Emmanuel T. Laryea

International commercial arbitration and poverty, not obvious but (maybe) possible / Christopher Kee

Foreign direct investment and the alleviation of poverty : is investment arbitration falling short of its goals? / Mariel Dimsey

The "corruption objection" to jurisdiction in investment arbitration : does it really protect the poor? / Stephan Wilske and Willa Obel

Investment guarantees and international obligations to reduce poverty : a human rights perspective / Markus Krajewski

Access to justice in dispute resolution : financial assistance in international arbitration / Brooks W. Daly and Sarah Melikian

From problem to potential : the need to go beyond investor-state disputes and integrate civil society, investors and state at the local level / Mariana Hernandez Crespo

The Millennium Challenge Corporation, law, and poverty reduction / Stuart Kerr

Ambitious goals, limited tools? : The IMF and poverty reduction / Ben Thirkell-White

The direct contribution of the international financial system to global poverty / Ross P. Buckley

The World Bank : fighting poverty : ideology versus accountability / Mark S. Ellis

Life, debt, and human rights : contextualising the international regime for sovereign debt relief / Celine Tan

Sovereign debt, odious debt, and the poverty of nations / Yvonne Wong

Poverty and corruption / Mark Pieth

International economic law, women, and poverty / Barnali Choudhury

The book famine : international copyright rules as barriers to knowledge for impoverished persons with disabilities / Caroline Hess-Klein

Caring for its children : how the European Union uses free movement law to tackle child poverty and social exclusion / Aline Doussin

Positive or negative, legal or moral : what duties to reduce poverty? / Stephanie B. Leinhardt and Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer

Human rights obligations to the poor / Monica Hakimi

The allocation of anti-poverty rights duties : our rights, but whose duties? / Samantha Besson.

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ISBN:

9781139507097

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