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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"subsistence rights"”.
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Is the Road to Hell Paved with Good Intentions? The Effect of U.S. Foreign Assistance and Economic Policy on Human Rights
… of U.S. aid, trade, and investment on human rights conditions in recipient states. Two measures of human rights conditions serve as dependent variables: security rights and subsistence rights. The data cover approximately 140 countries from 1976-1996. Pooled cross-sectional time series …
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Progress or Decline: International Political Economy and Basic Human Rights
… is a cross-national, empirical study of human rights conditions in a dynamic international political economy. The scope of the examination covers 176 developed and developing countries from 1980 through 1993. Through evaluating the numerous theoretical aspects of human rights conceptualization, …
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Does Cultural Heterogeneity Lead to Lower Levels of Regime Respect for Basic Human Rights?
… and regimes' respect for basic human rights. The quantitative human rights literature has not yet addressed the question of whether high levels of cultural diversity are beneficial or harmful. My research addresses this gap. I address the debate between those who argue that diversity …
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Hungry Spirits: Anishinaabe resistance and revitalization
… for generations to maintain their collective rights to Turtle Island, their vast homelands and territories stretching throughout North America, especially through the Upper Great Lakes region where they have lived and traveled for more than 10,000 years as America's first residents and First …
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The utilisation of ubuntu can promote accountability in public officials and state institutions as well as give effect to social solidarity in South Africa
… is duty-bound to give effect to socioeconomic rights as enshrined in the Constitution. Ubuntu, with reference to its communal obligations’ focus, could serve to facilitate the realisation of critical socio-economic rights as well as forge social solidarity. It is submitted that public officials …
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Who Benefits? The Effects of Foreign Aid and Foreign Direct Investment on Human Rights
The global emphasis on human rights has generated a surge of studies into what causes regimes to abuse the basic rights of their citizens. Causes of abuse can be internal or external in nature, based on economics, politics or cultures. This study examines the effects of foreign aid and foreign …
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Beyond GNP: Economic Freedom as a Determinant of Basic Human Needs.
Research concerning ‘basic needs' in the Human Rights literature has consistently found a positive and significant relationship between measures of wealth and basic needs provision. This study utilizes a relatively new measure of economic freedom to test hypotheses regarding general macro-economic …