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 …

Legal rules significantly affect the distribution of income, assets and power. While often
perceived as natural (both in the sense of arising without human intervention and reflecting …

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 …

This book finds that the UN's aim to free the world of poverty sits uneasily with the current
reality of unremitting social polarisation and persisting mass poverty. This is not just one 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 …

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 …

The acute poverty that currently affects large groups of people in the countries of the Global
South appears as a particularly disturbing problem since it co-exists with impressive …

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 …

This chapter addresses the challenge posed by poverty to the protection of human rights.
Human rights define the entitlements considered necessary for a life of dignity in society …

A common criticism of international human rights declarations is that they lack an adequate
account of the corresponding obligations. This criticism is often thought to be particularly apt …