Poverty And The International Economic Legal System

Author : Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107032741
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poverty and the International Economic Legal System written by Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking beyond development, this volume examines international trade, investment and finance law with a focus on poverty.

Author : Lucy Williams
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848137109
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Poverty Law written by Lucy Williams and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to advance the emerging field of international poverty law. While law and development discourse has dealt with international poverty, advocates of poverty reduction customarily operate within a nation-state context. The contributors to this volume, while largely, although not exclusively, relying on human rights discourse and United Nations, International Labour Organization and World Trade Organization initiatives as their primary legal sources, begin to position international poverty law as a legitimate field for transnational, multidisciplinary legal research and dialogue. While critiquing both legal theory and current policy, they nevertheless open up a constructive prospect of specific arenas in which the development of international poverty law can contribute to addressing poverty reduction. The opening chapters of this volume provide a framework within which to position the future theoretical development of international poverty law. The rest of the book explores specific human rights initiatives that address particular aspects of poverty. These include an overview of human rights conventions and how they can be connected to international poverty law; measures required to counter the tendency of intellectual property law as applied to biological products and processes to undermine food security; the right to food as framed in United Nations development documents; the potential role that voluntary codes of conduct currently being adopted by some transnational corporations might play in poverty reduction; and the startlingly important development in the new South Africa of an alternative vision of constitutional law that takes account of international human rights instruments in moving towards rendering social and economic rights justifiable.

Author : Lucy Williams
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781842773970
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Poverty written by Lucy Williams and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work exposes how law is central to the causes and structure of poverty, and explores new possibilities for using the law to alleviate poverty. It covers international human rights conventions, constitutional and statutory provisions and social insurance and social assistance law.

Author : John Linarelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198753950
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Misery of International Law written by John Linarelli and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty, inequality, and dispossession accompany economic globalization. Bringing together three international law scholars, this book addresses how international law and its regimes of trade, investment, finance, as well as human rights, are implicated in the construction of misery, and how international law is producing, reproducing, and embedding injustice and narrowing the alternatives that might really serve humanity. Adopting a pluralist approach, the authors confront the unconscionable dimensions of the global economic order, the false premises upon which they are built, and the role of international law in constituting and sustaining them. Combining insights from radical critiques, political philosophy, history, and critical development studies, the book explores the pathologies at work in international economic law today. International law must abide by the requirements of justice if it is to make a call for compliance with it, but this work claims it drastically fails do so. In a legal order structured around neoliberal ideologies rather than principles of justice, every state can and does grab what it can in the economic sphere on the basis of power and interest, legally so and under colour of law. This book examines how international law on trade and foreign investment and the law and norms on global finance has been shaped to benefit the rich and powerful at the expense of others. It studies how a set of principles, in the form of a New International Economic Order (NIEO), that could have laid the groundwork for a more inclusive international law without even disrupting its market-orientation, were nonetheless undermined. As for international human rights law, it is under the terms of global capitalism that human rights operate. Before we can understand how human rights can create more just societies, we must first expose the ways in which they reflect capitalist society and how they assist in reproducing the underlying terms of immiseration that will continue to create the need for human rights protection. This book challenges conventional justifications of economic globalization and eschews false choices. It is not about whether one is "for" or "against" international trade, foreign investment, or global finance. The issue is to resolve how, if we are to engage in trade, investment, and finance, we do so in a manner that is accountable to persons whose lives are affected by international law. The deployment of human rights for their part must be considered against the ubiquity of neoliberal globalization under law, and not merely as a discrete, benevolent response to it.

Author : World Bank Group
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789287040138
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Role of Trade in Ending Poverty written by World Bank Group and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trade will have an important role at the global level in generating the growth necessary for reducing extreme poverty to 3 percent and boosting prosperity for the poorest 40 percent by 2030. To identify the most important challenges that exist in maximizing the positive impact of trade on poverty, we need to understand who the poor are, where they are, and what economic activities they undertake. To this end, the study highlights particularly relevant dimensions of poverty: rural poverty in remote areas, informality, fragile and conflict situations, and women. For each of these issues, this study considers the main traderelated barriers and challenges, along with policy responses to address them. It shows the importance of the multilateral trading system and of the Doha Round, as well as the important role of the WBG and WTO in promoting coherence and implementing trade policies in a way that delivers the greatest possible benefits for the poor.

Author : Lucy Williams
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781842773963
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Poverty written by Lucy Williams and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2004-03-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book exposes previously ignored ways in which the law is central to the causes and structure of poverty, and explores new possibilities for using the law to alleviate poverty. It covers international human rights conventions, constitutional and statutory provisions, social insurance and social assistance law, and ranges over a wide terrain. Law is examined at its most general, as legally constructed--looking at the ways in which specific laws can either exacerbate poverty or enshrine a human right not to be poor--and in establishing specific rights entitlements that bear on reducing poverty. Finally, and most concretely, it examines the specific role of law in areas like tackling child labor, reducing economic discrimination against women, and the freedom of employees to organize.

Author : V. Kashturi Rangan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0787988545
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Business Solutions for the Global Poor written by V. Kashturi Rangan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-02-03 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on research presented at The Harvard Business School’s first-ever conference on business approaches to poverty alleviation, Business Solutions for the Global Poor brings together perspectives from leading academics and corporate, non-profit and public sector managers. The contributors draw on practical and dynamic how-to insights from leading BOP ventures from more than twenty countries world-wide. This important volume reflects poverty’s multi-faceted nature and a broad range of actors—multinational and local businesses, entrepreneurs, civil society organizations and governments—that play a role in its alleviation.

Author : Mads Andenas
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030573249
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fight Against Poverty and the Right to Development written by Mads Andenas and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book conducts a comparative legal study from two analytical points of view. First, it accounts for the legal dimensions of the fight against poverty and the right to development as seen from the perspective of domestic legal law. It examines the domestic legal tools, such as constitutional law, that aim to contribute to the fight against poverty and the right to development. Second, the book accounts for the domestic contributions to the international legal framework and examines cross-cutting themes of the contemporary state-of-play on the fight against poverty more broadly and of the right to development. The book consists of several national and thematic reports, which look at these issues from either a national or a thematic perspective. Its first chapter is a general report, which draws on the national and thematic reports to compare, systematize and question the contemporary features at play within the field of the fight against poverty and the right to development.

Author : Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107328705
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poverty and the International Economic Legal System written by Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Peter Robson
Publisher : Hart Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1841131903
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poverty and the Law written by Peter Robson and published by Hart Publishing. This book was released on 2001-04-03 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays focus on the global impact of legal policies on levels of poverty.