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UNINA9910715365103321 |
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Credit policies : hearings before the Joint Committee on the Economic Report, Congress of the United States, Eightieth Congress, second session, pursuant to Sec. 5 (A) of Public law 304, 79th Congress, April 13, 16, May 12, 13, 27, 1948 |
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Washington : , : United States Government Printing Office, , 1948 |
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1 online resource (iii, 152 pages) : diagrams (3 foldouts) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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TaftRobert A <1889-1953.> (Robert Alphonso) |
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Credit - United States |
Currency question - United States |
Credit |
Currency question |
Legislative hearings. |
United States |
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Monografia |
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Robert A. Taft, chairman. |
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UNINA9910809857903321 |
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Making sovereign financing and human rights work / / edited by Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, Jernej Letnar Černič |
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Oxford, England ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : Hart Publishing, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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1-5099-0924-9 |
1-78225-393-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (392 p.) |
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Debts, Public - Law and legislation |
Debts, External - Law and legislation |
Human rights - Economic aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Contributors; Table of Cases; Table of Legislation; 1 Placing Human Rights at the Centre of Sovereign Financing; I OBSERVING THE INTERLINKS BETWEEN SOVEREIGN DEBTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS; A Filling the Gap: Human Beings First; B A Bottom-up Approach; II PRESENTATION OF THE CONTENTS OF THE BOOK; Part I: Debt and Gross Violations of Political and Civil Rights; 2 Rational Choice and Financial Complicity with Human Rights Abuses: Policy and Legal Implications |
I INTRODUCTION: WHY THIS INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH?II FINANCIAL COMPLICITY IN POLITICAL SCIENCE: FOREIGN INCOME AND AUTHORITARIAN RESILIENCE; III LEGAL DIMENSION: A RUDIMENTARY ANSWER; A Conventions and Customary International Law; B Jurisprudence; IV POLICY AND LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE FINDINGS IN THE CONTEXT OF COMPLICITY; V ASSESSING THE VERISIMILITUDE OF THE IMPLICATIONS; 3 UN Sanctions that Safeguard, Undermine, or Both, Human Rights; I INTRODUCTION; II UN SANCTIONS: LEGAL |
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FRAMEWORK; III IMPACT ON HUMAN RIGHTS: THE IRANIAN CASE; IV TOWARDS AN OPERATIONAL METHODOLOGY; V CONCLUSION |
4 The Significance of Human Rights for the Debt of Countries in TransitionI LINKAGES BETWEEN DEBT AND HUMAN RIGHTS; A Debt Forgiveness and Human Rights; II TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE AND ECONOMIC VIOLENCE; A Odious and Illegitimate Debt; III THE POLICY RELEVANCE OF A HUMAN RIGHTS PERSPECTIVE; 5 Establishing Liability for Financial Complicity in International Crimes; I INTRODUCTION; II CORPORATE COMPLICITY IN INTERNATIONAL CRIMES; A No Recognition of Corporate Complicity before International Criminal Tribunals; B The Notion of Corporate Complicity before Domestic Courts |
III FINANCIAL COMPLICITY IN INTERNATIONAL CRIMESIV LESSONS FROM INTERNATIONAL LAW ON FINANCING TERRORISM; V CONCLUSION; Part II: Debt Crises and Social and Economic Rights; 6 Human Rights and Sovereign Debt Workouts; I THE ASYMMETRY BETWEEN DEBT AND HUMAN RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT: LEGAL AND DISCURSIVE HISTORY; II HUMAN RIGHTS AFFECTED IN SOVEREIGN DEBT WORKOUTS; A Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of People in the Debtor State; B Civil and Political Rights of People in the Debtor State; C Human Rights of Creditors; III JUSTIFICATION OF MEASURES AFFECTING HUMAN RIGHTS |
A Retrogressive Measures Affecting Economic, Social and Cultural RightsB Measures Affecting Property Rights and Due Process Rights; IV RESPONSIBILITY; A Debtor State; B International Organisations; C Paris Club; D Bilateral Lenders; E Private Creditors; V RECTIFYING ASYMMETRIES THROUGH HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; 7 A Sovereign Debt Overhang, Human Rights and the MDGs: Legal Problems through an Economist's Lens; I INTRODUCTION; II HUMAN RIGHTS OBLIGATIONS AND UNPAYABLE DEBTS; III SOVEREIGN DEBTS AND DEBTOR PROTECTION; IV CONCLUSIONS; 8 Debts and State of Necessity; I INTRODUCTION |
II IS THERE A STATE OF NECESSITY DEFENCE AVAILABLE FOR ECONOMIC EMERGENCIES? |
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There is an urgent need for more systematic and robust legal and economic thinking about sovereign finance and human rights. This edited collection aims to contribute to filling this gap. |
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