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Defining Human Rights in Economic Terms: The Role of the IMF and the World Bank in Analyzing the Effects of Globalization on Human Rights.
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Defining Human Rights in Economic Terms: The Role of the IMF and the World
Bank in Analyzing the Effects of Globalization on Human Rights.
Pamela BlackmonDepartment of Political ScienceOklahoma State UniversityStillwater, OK 74078
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Abstract: This paper investigates institutional differences between the IMF and the World Bank as an important explanatory factor in their approaches to alleviating and understanding poverty as a human rights issue. The results indicate that IMF publications that discuss poverty alleviation will most likely involve macroeconomic issues that affect the poor such as high inflation and slower economic growth. World Bank publications on the other hand, are more likely to include developmental issues as they relate to poverty and input from stakeholders, including the poor themselves. The Bank has evolved to be able to address and understand poverty as a societal and human rights issue, while the Fund continues to focus on poverty, not as a human rights issue, but as a macroeconomic issue. This is due to the fact that while the IMF and the World Bank share a similar beginning and history, they focus on different aspects of poverty and development.
Paper prepared for delivery at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Washington, D.C. September 1-4, 2005.
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Defining Human Rights in Economic Terms: The Role of the IMF and the World
Bank in Analyzing the Effects of Globalization on Human Rights.
Pamela Blackmon
Department of Political Science
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK 74078
Abstract: This paper investigates institutional differences between the IMF and the World
Bank as an important explanatory factor in their approaches to alleviating and
understanding poverty as a human rights issue. The results indicate that IMF publications
that discuss poverty alleviation will most likely involve macroeconomic issues that affect
the poor such as high inflation and slower economic growth. World Bank publications
on the other hand, are more likely to include developmental issues as they relate to
poverty and input from stakeholders, including the poor themselves. The Bank has
evolved to be able to address and understand poverty as a societal and human rights issue,
while the Fund continues to focus on poverty, not as a human rights issue, but as a
macroeconomic issue. This is due to the fact that while the IMF and the World Bank
share a similar beginning and history, they focus on different aspects of poverty and
development.
Paper prepared for delivery at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Washington, D.C. September 1-4, 2005.
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