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Human Rights and International Political Economy in Third World Nations: Multinational Corporations, Foreign Aid, and Repression - Couverture souple

Meyer, William

 
9780275962807: Human Rights and International Political Economy in Third World Nations: Multinational Corporations, Foreign Aid, and Repression
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0275962806 ISBN 13 : 9780275962807
Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 1998

Synopsis

What impact do international economic inputs have on human rights in Third World nations? William Meyer explores the effects of direct investment by U.S. multinational corporations, economic and military aid, and MNC manufacturing plants. He examines the international political economy of human rights at both the national and the international levels. Case studies are combined with quantitative studies that use aggregate cross-national data, and theories that link MNCs to human rights are subjected to empirical testing.

As Meyer illustrates, at the national level, human rights violations are associated with U.S. MNCs in Chile, Honduras, India, Indonesia, and Mexico. MNCs have been especially guilty of violating labor rights, particularly through their reliance on sweatshops. MNCs have also been responsible for widespread pollution and environmental degradation. At a broader international level, increased investment by MNCs tends to go along with human rights improvements in the Third World as a whole. Meyer shows that there is a broad positive relationship between direct investment by MNCs and broader political rights and improved living standards. Aggregate data are also analyzed for human rights as compared to U.S. economic and military aid. Economic aid is found to be associated with improved civil-political rights and improved socioeconomic rights. Military aid, by contrast, is associated with declining levels of civil rights and with lower levels of social welfare. This book will serve as an important study for researchers, activists, and students of human rights.

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À propos de l'auteur

WILLIAM H. MEYER is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Delaware. Among his earlier publications is Transnational Media and Third World Development (Greenwood, 1988).

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Éditeur
Praeger Publishers Inc
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0275962806
ISBN 13 
9780275962807
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
264
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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