Human rights and economic inequalities
Economic inequalities are among the greatest human rights challenges the world faces today due to the past four decades of neoliberal policy dominance. Globally, there are now over 2,000 billionaires, while 3.4 billion people live below the poverty line of US $5.50 per day. Many human rights scholar...
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| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2021
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| Schriftenreihe: | Globalization and human rights
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| Zusammenfassung: | Economic inequalities are among the greatest human rights challenges the world faces today due to the past four decades of neoliberal policy dominance. Globally, there are now over 2,000 billionaires, while 3.4 billion people live below the poverty line of US $5.50 per day. Many human rights scholars and practitioners read these statistics with alarm, asking what impact such extreme inequalities have on realizing human rights and what role, if any, should human rights have in challenging them? This edited volume examines these questions from multiple disciplinary perspectives, seeking to uncover the relationships between human rights and economic inequalities, and the barriers and pathways to greater economic equality and full enjoyment of human rights for all. The volume is a unique contribution to the emerging literature on human rights and economic inequality, as it is interdisciplinary, global in reach and extends to several under-researched areas in the field |
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| Beschreibung: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Sep 2021) |
| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 418 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 9781009006545 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781009006545 |