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 …

In per capita terms South Africa is an upper-middle-income country, but despite this relative
wealth, the experience of most South African households is that of outright poverty or of …

World poverty represents a failure of the international community to see half of the global
population secure their basic socio-economic rights. Yet international law establishes that …

This chapter argues that poverty is created, maintained, and regulated. Global poverty
occupies a unique position as both the 'blind spot'and raison d'être of an international legal …

The evaluation of anti-poverty regimes developed by international organizations active in
the field of social welfare challenges the thinking of scientists and experts on poverty issues …

A concern with ensuring minimum standards of dignity for all and a doctrine based on the
need to secure for everyone basic levels of rights have traditionally shaped the way in which …

With a focus on how trade, foreign investment, commercial arbitration and financial
regulation rules affect impoverished individuals, Poverty and the International Economic …

The juxtaposition of these three keywords—international development, global
impoverishment, and human rights—enables some meaningful conversation, and global …

The Human Development Report 2000 of the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP) noted:'People are turning more and more to the law–including international human …

This paper addresses the relationship between economic globalization and the theory and
practice of poverty law in the United States. It suggests that poverty law must be" …