Rethinking Macro Economic Strategies from a Human Rights Perspective

Radhika Balakrishnan, Diane Elson and Rajeev Patel propose a novel focus and methodology that allows us to evaluate macro-economic policies from the perspective of the progressive realization of the people's economic and social human rights, and the States’ compliance with their minimal, basic responsibilities to their people.This article was published in Development, Volume 53, Number 1, 1 March 2010, pp. 27-36(10)