Human rights and structural adjustment /
M. Rodwan Abouharb and D avid Cingranelli.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- xiv, 276 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-267) and indexes.
pt. I. The argument. 1. Structural adjustment programs undermine hum an rights -- 2. Respect for human rights promotes development -- 3. The oretical linkages between structural adjustment and repression --pt. II . Estimating the human rights effects of structural adjustment. 4. Meth ods -- 5. Determinants of structural adjustment lending --pt. III. Find ings. 6. Economic and social rights -- 7. Civil conflict : demonstratio ns, riots, and rebellion -- 8. Torture, murder, disappearance and polit ical imprisonment -- 9. Worker rights -- 10. Democracy -- pt. IV. Concl usion. 11. A rights-based approach to development.
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Human rights ----Developing countries.---- Structural adjustment (Economic policy)----Developing countries.---- Economic development ----Developing countries.---- Economic assistance --------