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 direct investment on three types of human rights: personal integrity, civil and political, and subsistence. I perform ordinary least squares regression analyses with panel-corrected standard errors on a pooled cross-sectional time series design incorporating 127 countries from 1976 to 1996. While my results are not significant, it is important to observe that there is a tendency toward negative relationships for the majority of the analyses.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2007

Author dc:creator

• Moses, Misty

Contributors dc:contributor

• Meernik, James
• Poe, Steven
• Reban, Milan

• foreign aid
• foreign direct investment
• human rights
• subsistence rights
• Economic assistance -- Political aspects.
• Human rights.

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Moses, Misty
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 176143883
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3637/
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OAI identifier oai:identifier

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