Poverty and the International Economic Legal System

Duties to the World's Poor
Herausgeber: Nadakavukaren, Krista

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Produktbeschreibung

Looking beyond development, this volume examines international trade, investment and finance law with a focus on poverty.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 870g
• ISBN-13: 9781107032743
• ISBN-10: 1107032741
• Artikelnr.: 36955616

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Poverty and International Law: Setting out the Framework: 1.
Poverty, obligations and the international economic legal system: what are
our duties to the global poor? Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer; 2.
Anti-poverty v. the international economic legal order? A legal cultural
critique Colin B. Picker; Part II. IEL Institutions and Poverty: Part IIA.
Trade: 3. Introductory note: trade and poverty Gabrielle Marceau; 4.
Poverty, redistribution and international trade regulation Thomas Cottier;
5. Trade liberalisation and poverty reduction: complementary or
contradictory aims? Bryan Mercurio; 6. God, the WTO and hunger Christian
Häberli; 7. Does free trade matter for poverty reduction? The case of ASEAN
Pasha Hsieh; 8. Poverty alleviation through paperless trade Emmanuel
Laryea; Part IIB. Investment and Arbitration: 9. Arbitration, insurance,
investment, corruption, and poverty: introduction J. J. Gass; 10. Foreign
direct investment and the alleviation of poverty: is investment arbitration
falling short of its goals? Mariel Dimsey; 11. The 'corruption objection'
to jurisdiction in investment arbitration: does it really protect the poor?
Stephan Wilske and Willa Obel; 12. Investment guarantees and international
obligations to reduce poverty: a human rights perspective Markus Krajewski;
13. International commercial arbitration and poverty: not obvious but
(maybe) possible Christopher Kee; 14. Access to justice in dispute
resolution: financial assistance in international arbitration Brooks W.
Daly and Sarah Melikian; 15. From problem to potential: the need to go
beyond investor-state disputes and integrate civil society, investors and
state at the local level Mariana Hernandez Crespo; 16. The Millennium
Challenge Corporation, law, and poverty reduction Stuart Kerr; Part IIC.
International Financial Regulation: 17. Reflections on law and poverty
Gavin Bingham; 18. Ambitious goals, limited tools? The IMF and poverty
reduction Ben Thirkell-White; 19. The direct contribution of the
international financial system to global poverty Ross P. Buckley; 20. The
World Bank: fighting poverty: ideology versus accountability Mark S. Ellis;
21. Life, debt and human rights: contextualising the international regime
for sovereign debt relief Celine Tan; 22. Sovereign debt, odious debt and
the poverty of nations Yvonne Wong; 23. Poverty and corruption Mark Pieth;
Part III. IEL and Poverty: Concerns of Particularly Vulnerable Populations:
24. International economic law, women and poverty Barnali Choudhury; 25.
The book famine: international copyright rules as barriers to knowledge for
impoverished persons with disabilities Caroline Hess-Klein; 26. Caring for
its children!: How the European Union uses free movement law to tackle
child poverty and social exclusion Aline Doussin; Part IV. Challenging Our
Assumptions: Is there a Duty to Reduce Poverty?: 27. Introduction Stephanie
B. Leinhardt and Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer; 28. Human rights obligations
of the poor Monica Hakimi; 29. The allocation of anti-poverty rights
duties: our rights, but whose duties? Samantha Besson; Part V. Conclusions:
30. Closing thoughts Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer.