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It is a tenet of faith among politicians, financiers, and academicians that economic development enhances human rights conditions. This common assertion, however, masks a great deal of debate regarding the precise relationship between development and human rights. In fact, there is lack of agreement about which particular rights are affected by economic development and even whether human rights are to be considered the cause or the effect of the relationship. The debate stems from different ideological perspectives, academic propensities and definitions of concepts.
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See, for example, Lucian Pye, ‘The Concept of Political Development’, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (1965); and Leonard Binder et al., Crises and Sequences of Political Development (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971).
Samuel Huntington and Joan Nelson, No Easy Choice: Political Participation in Developing Countries (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976);
George Shepard and Ved Nanda, Human Rights and Third World Development (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1985).
Richard Claude (ed.), Comparative Human Rights (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1976); United Nations Commission on Human Rights, ‘Social Welfare and the Level of Socio-economic Development’, 1968, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Social Welfare.
See Henry Shue, Basic Rights (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980), particularly Chapter 1; and Paul Sieghart, ‘Economic Development, Human Rights and The Omelette Thesis’, in Development Policy Review, 1, 1 (May 1983); Development, Human Rights and the Rule of Law: Report of a Conference held in the Hague, 27 April–1 May 1981, convened by the International Commission of Jurists (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1982) and UN Resolution 32/130.
Jack Donnelly, What are Human Rights: An Historical and Conceptual Analysis (PhD dissertation, Berkeley, 1982).
For examples see M. D. Morris, Measuring the Conditions of the World’s Poor: The Physical Quality of Life Index (New York: Pergamon Press; Overseas Development Council, 1979); and Bruce E. Moon and William Dixon, ‘Politics, the State, and Basic Human Needs: A Cross National Study’, American Journal of Political Science, 29 (1985). Noted exceptions are Sieghart, op. cit., in research he himself calls ‘more provocative than rigorously scientific’, who does some tests correlating per capita product with indicators of human rights, using the PQLI and the Freedom House Index; and James C. Strouse and Richard P. Claude, ‘Empirical Comparative Rights Research: Some Preliminary Tests of Development Hypotheses’, in Claude (ed.), Comparative Human Rights, op. cit., who use some indicators of economic development rates.
Raymond Gastil, Freedom in the World: Political Rights and Civil Liberties (New York: Freedom House, 1978). Data here are for 1974.
J. Dominguez, Enhancing Global Human Rights (New York: McGraw Hill, 1979);
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Richard Goode, Government Finance in Developing Countries (Washington, DC: Brookings, 1984).
Central Intelligence Agency, Handbook of Economic Statistics (Washington, DC: GPO, 1976) pp. 66–72.
A. Hinrichs, General Theory of Tax Structure Change During Economic Development (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Law School, 1966);
and Musgrave , Fiscal Systems (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969).
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Pritchard, K. (1989). Human Rights and Development: Theory and Data. In: Forsythe, D.P. (eds) Human Rights and Development. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19967-9_19
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