TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nolan,Aoife
TI  - Economic and social rights after the global financial crisis
SN  - 9781316077924
AV  - K3820 .E26 2014 
U1  - 330 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - Basic needs
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Social rights
KW  - Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
KW  - Politique économique
KW  - Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
KW  - Aspect économique
KW  - Droits économiques et sociaux
KW  - Crise financière mondiale, 2008-2009
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Political Freedom & Security
KW  - Human Rights
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Economics
KW  - General
KW  - Reference
KW  - fast
KW  - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (New York, 16 December 1966)
KW  - pplt
KW  - Economic, social and cultural rights
KW  - Economic crisis
KW  - International law and national law
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - II. The prohibition of retrogression under Article 2(1) of ICESCR: origins and key questions; Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Table of cases; Table of legislation; List of abbreviations; Introduction; I. Painting the big (global) picture: the crises and economic and social rights protection internationally; II. Teasing out obligations in a time of crisis; III. Exploring responses to financial and economic crises; IV. Conclusions and new post-crisis frontiers; Part I Painting the big (global) picture; 1 Alternatives to austerity; I. Introduction; II. Human rights framework; A. Using the maximum resources availableB. Ensuring minimum essential levels of ESCR; C. Avoiding deliberate retrogressive measures; D. Ensuring non-discrimination and equality; E. Guaranteeing participation; F. Ensuring accountability; III. States' responses to the crises and their potential threat to the realisation of human rights; A. Eroding social protection systems; B. Cutting spending on public services; C. Reducing wage bills; D. Implementing regressive taxation measures; E. Limiting food subsidies; IV. Recommendations for a rights-based recovery; A. Ensuring a social protection floor for allB. Promoting employment and supporting decent work; C. Implementing socially responsible taxation policies; D. Enhancing financial regulation; E. Adopting a comprehensive national strategy to reduce poverty; F. Conducting human rights impact assessments; G. Ensuring gender-sensitive policies; H. Increasing participation and creating a national dialogue; I. Ensuring vulnerable people can effectively challenge policy decisions that threaten their ESCR; J. Strengthening state institutional and technical capacity and data collection; K. Enhancing international assistance and cooperationV. Conclusion -- crisis as opportunity: a time for transformative policies; 2 Late-neoliberalism; I. Introduction; II. The rise of housing finance; III. The international human rights framework; IV. Prevalent housing finance policies and their impact on the right to adequate housing of people living in poverty; A. Mortgage markets; B. Demand subsidies; C. Housing micro-finance; V. Summing up and setting out an alternative: a human rights-based approach to housing policies; 3 The role of global governance in supporting human rights; I. IntroductionII. The shock of 2008: a short history of the food price crisis; III. The diagnosis: the need for improved consistency across policy areas; IV. The role of human rights in shaping international regimes: the Rome Model; A. The reform of the Committee on World Food Security; B. The next steps; V. Conclusion; Part II Teasing out obligations in a time of crisis; 4 Two steps forward, no steps back? Evolving criteria on the prohibition of retrogression in economic, social and cultural rights; I. Introduction
N2  - This book addresses the interrelationship between economic and financial crises, the responses thereto, and economic and social rights
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