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Feminism in Public Debt
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 303

Feminism in Public Debt

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-05-16
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

EPDF and EPUB available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As many developing countries are facing increasingly higher levels of debt and economic instability, this interdisciplinary volume explores the intersection of sovereign debt and women's human rights. Through contributions from leading voices in academia, civil society, international organizations and national governments, it shows how debt-related economic policies are widening gender inequalities and argues for a systematic feminist approach to debt issues. Offering a new perspective on the global debt crisis, this is an invaluable resource for readers who seek to understand the complex relationship between economics and gender.

Pinochet's Economic Accomplices
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 461

Pinochet's Economic Accomplices

With a focus on Chile, Pinochet’s Economic Accomplices: An Unequal Country by Force uses theoretical arguments and empirical studies to argue that focusing on the behavior of economic actors of the dictatorship is crucial to achieve basic objectives in terms of justice, memory, reparation, and non-repetition measures. This book makes visible a number of cases of economic complicity with the Chilean dictatorship and explains their links with the radical inequalities the country has today while proposing a theoretical framework for their study. Scholars of Latin American studies, history, sociology, economics, business, and human rights will find this book particularly useful.

Democratizing Finance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

Democratizing Finance

We are only in the early stages of a broader revolution that will impact every aspect of the global economy, including commerce and government services. Coming financial technology innovations could improve the quality of life for all people. Over the past few decades, digital technology has transformed finance. Financial technology (fintech) has enabled more people with fewer resources, in more places around the world, to take advantage of banking, insurance, credit, investment, and other financial services. Marion Laboure and Nicolas Deffrennes argue that these changes are only the tip of the iceberg. A much broader revolution is under way that, if steered correctly, will lead to huge and ...

Social Protection for Older Persons
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 267

Social Protection for Older Persons

  • Categories: Law

The rising number of older persons in Asia has accentuated the importance of strengthening the systems of social protection in the region. This book examines the effectiveness and relevance of noncontributory or social pensions in supporting older persons in Asia. It discusses the political economy and financial sustainability of social pension reform, implications for gender equity and social rights, and design and implementation challenges. Case studies from Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand, Viet Nam, and South Caucasus and Central Asia provide key lessons for informing development policy and practice in Asia and the Pacific.

Policy Innovations for Transformative Change
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Policy Innovations for Transformative Change

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016
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  • Publisher: UN

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals are a global commitment to "transforming our world" and eradicating poverty in all its forms everywhere. The challenge now is to put this vision into action. Policy Innovations for Transformative Change, the UNRISD 2016 Flagship Report, helps unpack the complexities of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda in a unique way: by focusing on the innovations and pathways to policy change, and analysing which policies and practices will lead to social, economic and ecological justice. Drawing on numerous policy innovations from the South, the report goes beyond buzzwords and brings to the development community a definition of transformation which can be used as a benchmark for policy making toward the 2030 Agenda, intended to "leave no one behind". Bringing together five years of UNRISD research across six areas--social policy, care policy, social and solidarity economy, eco-social policy, domestic resource mobilization, and politics and governance--the report explores what transformative change really means for societies and individuals.

Reforming Pensions in Developing and Transition Countries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 211

Reforming Pensions in Developing and Transition Countries

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-08-22
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book moves beyond technical studies of pension systems by addressing the political economy of pension reform in different contexts. It provides insights into key issues related to pension policy and its developmental implications, drawing on selected country studies in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America.

Mineral Rents and the Financing of Social Policy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 198

Mineral Rents and the Financing of Social Policy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-05-30
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  • Publisher: Springer

An exploration of the implications of mineral-led wealth and the opportunities that this creates for economic and social development. The book includes theoretical and policy analyses as well as micro level country case studies, including Norway, Chile, Indonesia, Nigeria and Botswana.

The Political Economy of Pension Policy Reversal in Post-Communist Countries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

The Political Economy of Pension Policy Reversal in Post-Communist Countries

This book examines how and why policies are reversed by focusing on post-communist backtracking on pension privatization.

The Economic Accomplices to the Argentine Dictatorship
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 417

The Economic Accomplices to the Argentine Dictatorship

This book uncovers how banks, individuals, and companies worked as economic accomplices to the oppressive Argentinian dictatorship.

Corporate Accountability in the Context of Transitional Justice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Corporate Accountability in the Context of Transitional Justice

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-06-23
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Corporate Accountability in the Context of Transitional Justice explores how corporations can be held accountable for their role in past human rights violations when a country is making a transition from conflict or repression to peace and democracy. It breaks new ground in theorizing the linkages between the areas of transitional justice and corporate accountability and analyzing problems frequently arising where the two fields meet in practice, for example where the role of corporations in past human rights violations is examined by truth and reconciliation commissions or in the course of litigation. The book provides an overview of the current trends in law and in legal and political disc...