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Sovereign Debt and Human Rights

By Ilias Bantekas

Sovereign Debt and Human Rights

By Ilias Bantekas

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Sovereign debt is necessary for the functioning of many modern states, yet its impact on human rights is underexplored in academic literature. Without understanding how debt accumulates, it is impossible to realise the impact it can have on the individual. Taking the big three sovereign lenders of the international financial institutions, the sovereigns, and the private lenders, Bantekas and Lumina ask what the human rights dimensions of their policies are. How do debt-influencing mechanisms and vulture funds enter the mix? What happens to human rights when sovereign debt accumulates? What happens to people's rights when structural adjustment programmes are imposed on debtor states, in attempts to service their debts? For the first time Bantekas and Lumina assemble a team of experts, both lawyers and non-lawyers, to arrive at a variety of conclusions: that the imposition of structural adjustment programmes on debtor states, far from solving the complex problem of sovereign debt, in fact exacerbates the debt, damages the state's economic sovereignty, injures the entrenched rights of peoples, and worsens the borrower's economic situation.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
632
Release Date:
2019-01-15
Publication Date:
2019-01-15
Publisher:
OXFORD UNIV PR
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
019881044X
ISBN13:
9780198810445
Weight:
1253 g
Height:
175 cm
Width:
250 cm
Thickness:
38 cm
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