A Human Rights Based Approach to Development in India

Moshe Hirsch, Ashok Kotwal, Bharat Ramaswami (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2020
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-6031-4 (ISBN)

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Over the last twenty years, India has enacted legislation to turn crucial goals such as food security, primary education, and employment into legal rights for its citizens. But enacting laws is one thing and implementing them through an imperfect institutional structure is another. A Human Rights Based Approach to Development in India examines a diverse range of human development issues over a period of rapid economic growth in India. Demonstrating why institutional and economic development are synonymous, the essays in this volume detail the many obstacles that may hinder development. In addition, they show how the domestic policies required to implement laws may undermine India's treaty obligations at the World Trade Organization or under the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights. The contributors ultimately ask whether development can be achieved by making it a legal right and whether India's right to develop is truly at odds with its international commitments.

Moshe Hirsch is the Von Hofmannsthal Chair of International Law and co-director of the International Law Forum at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Specializing in international economic law, public international law, and international legal theory, he is the author of Invitation to the Sociology of International Law and has contributed to the International and Comparative Law Quarterly and the European Journal of International Law, among other publications. Ashok Kotwal is a professor of economics in the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia. He is a development economist with a particular interest in development processes in India and their impact on poverty. Kotwal is also the editor-in-chief of the Ideas for India online newsletter on Indian development research findings.Bharat Ramaswami is a professor of economics at the Indian Statistical Institute in Delhi. He received the 2004 Indian Econometric Society Mahalanobis Memorial Medal for his work in quantitative economics. Much of his work studies food, agriculture, and employment in the processes of economic development. Contributors: Ashwini Deshpande, Simon Harding, Milind Kandlikar, Ashwini Kulkarni, Nisha Malhotra, Milind Murugkar, Pitman B. Potter, Wilima Wadhwa

Foreword / Pitman B. Potter

Introduction / India and a Human Rights Based Approach to Economic Development / Moshe Hirsch, Ashok Kotwal, and Bharat Ramaswami

1 India's National Food Security Act and the WTO Agreement on Agriculture / Milind Murugkar

2 Primary Education in India: Evidence and Practice / Ashok Kotwal, Bharat Ramaswami, and Wilima Wadhwa

3 Ensuring the Right to Work through Better Governance / Ashwini Kulkarni

4 From Cautious Support to Precautionary Paralysis: The Evolution of India's Regulatory Regime for Transgenics / Milind Kandlikar

5 Child Malnutrition, Infant Feeding Practices, and Nutrition Information: Evidence from India / Nisha Malhotra

6 Foreign Direct Investment and Intergroup Disparities in India / Ashwini Deshpande

7 Climate Change Mitigation: The Indian Conundrum / Milind Kandlikar and Simon Harding

Conclusion / Moshe Hirsch, Ashok Kotwal, and Bharat Ramaswami

References; Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.01.2020
Reihe/Serie	Asia Pacific Legal Culture and Globalization
Zusatzinfo	12 charts, 25 tables
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	320 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	0-7748-6031-6 / 0774860316
ISBN-13	978-0-7748-6031-4 / 9780774860314
Zustand	Neuware