Done well, Sustainability Impact Assessments (SIAs) of trade agreements can provide useful insights and help craft inclusive, sustainable trade policy. The recent SIA of the EFTA-Thailand trade agreement provides an opportunity to reflect on what works and what doesn’t.
Institutions matter. Institutions must be inclusive for a society to thrive. The rule of law is a valid concept in economics.
In awarding the economics prize for the study of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity, the Nobel Committee has validated key Human Rights Economics concepts.
Analysées du point de vue des droits humains, ni les sciences économiques ni la pratique économique sont à la hauteur des défis sociaux et environnementaux...
Human rights economics strives for an economic system that is just for people and the planet, that promotes social and economic justice, that integrates a plurality of views and traditions and that is inclusive in both its processes and outcomes.
Why do we not have a human rights economics? Feminists have articulated a concept of feminist economics which is broadly recognized and which has infused many...
The World Bank’s recently-published report on the distributional impact of trade is welcome; all the more so that it says what we in the human rights community have long known: benefits of trade are distributed unequally, creating winners and losers.
States tend to ratify new trade agreements with little heed for their human rights obligations. Impact assessment can help ensure consistency between these two bodies of law.