Inequality as Entitlements over Labor
The modern study of economic inequality is based on the distribution of entitlements over goods and services. But social commentators at least since Rousseau have been concerned with a different … Continue reading
NOSOTROS, VOSOTROS Y LAS CIUDADES. — Pablo Sanchez Chillon
[VINDICATIO URBIS] Por Pablo Sánchez Chillón. [Todos los cambios, aun los más ansiados, llevan consigo cierta melancolía]. Anatole France. An article by Pablo Sánchez Chillón, Lawyer, International Speaker, Strategy and … Continue reading
Why protecting informal economy workers is so critical in time of COVID-19 — Development Matters
By Anders Gerdin, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), and Alexandre Kolev, Head of the Social Cohesion Unit, OECD Development Centre This blog is part of a series on tackling … Continue reading
Covid-19: New policies for a new crisis
Originally posted on RIGHTS in context DERECHOS en contexto:
This article was published first in Open Global Rights Life is changing quickly, and it is incumbent upon us to find…
Are We at War? The Rhetoric of War in the Coronavirus Pandemic — The Disorder Of Things
The seventh contribution to our growing collection of writings on Covid-19 and this moment of crisis. Federica Caso is currently a teaching assistant at the University of Queensland, where she … Continue reading
Urban Claims and the Right to the City
Urban Claims and the Right to the City explores how contested processes of urban development, and the rights of city dwellers, are understood and interpreted from the perspective of women and … Continue reading
How Cities Erode Gender Inequality: A New Theory and Evidence from Cambodia
Support for gender equality has risen, globally. Analyses of this trend focus on individual and/or country-level characteristics. But this overlooks sub-national variation. Citydwellers are more likely to support gender equality … Continue reading
Debt and human rights
The purpose of the present report is to assist in understanding–and also to unravel, denounce and offer recommendations to tackle–human rights violations in the context of private debt, focusing specifically … Continue reading
Protecting the entrepreneurial poor: A human rights approach
[Article behind paywall] Half of the working poor in developing countries are informal entrepreneurs – they make a living by engaging in commercial activities in the shadow economy. A series … Continue reading
