Human rights and the global economy: A response to meyer

Human Rights Quarterly

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1999, Pages

  Smith, Jackie ^a   Bolyard, Melissa ^a   Ippolito, Anna ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (9)

1. David M. Trubek, Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in the Third World: Human Rights Law and Human Needs Programs, in 1 HUMAN RIGHTS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW: LEGAL AND POLICY ISSUES 205, 225 (Theodor Meron ed., 1984).
2. William H. Meyer, Human Rights and MNCs: Theory Versus Quantitative Analysis, 18 HUM. RTS. Q. 368 (1996).
3. See Church Council Criticizes Nigeria Shell Oil Co., WASH. POST, 7 Jan. 1997, at A10.
4. See Peter Eisen, Ecuador Continues to Press Environmental Lawsuit Against Texaco, OIL DAILY, 27 Aug. 1997, at 5; Claim Against Texaco Goes on: Alarcon Agrees to Back Cofan Case in New York, LATIN AM. REGIONAL Rtp.: ANDEAN CROUP, 13 May 1997, at 6.
5. See Peter Eisen, Ecuador Continues to Press Environmental Lawsuit Against Texaco, OIL DAILY, 27 Aug. 1997, at 5; Claim Against Texaco Goes on: Alarcon Agrees to Back Cofan Case in New York, LATIN AM. REGIONAL Rtp.: ANDEAN CROUP, 13 May 1997, at 6.
6. See Neil J. Mitchell & James M. McCormick, Economic and Political Explanations of Human Rights Violations, 40 WORLD POL. 476, 479, 488-89 (1988). Mitchell and McCormick's work supports the thesis that a linear relationship exists between economic development and human rights, although they found some support for the claim that this relationship is curvilinear; i.e., that very poor and relatively prosperous states are least likely to exercise repression while modernizing states are more likely to violate human rights.
7. Meyer, supra note 2, at 375.
8. See Daniel D. Bradlow & Claudio Crossman, Limited Mandates and Intertwined Problems: A New Challenge for the World Bank and the IMF, 17 HUM. RTS. Q. 411 (1995); Norman Myers, Debate: Cross Reality of Global Statistics, GUARDIAN, 2 May 1994, at 9.
9. See Daniel D. Bradlow & Claudio Crossman, Limited Mandates and Intertwined Problems: A New Challenge for the World Bank and the IMF, 17 HUM. RTS. Q. 411 (1995); Norman Myers, Debate: Cross Reality of Global Statistics, GUARDIAN, 2 May 1994, at 9.