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  1. Human rights impact assessments as a new tool for development policy?
    Author: Baxewanos, Fabiane; Raza, Werner
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  ÖFSE, Wien

    Development policy affects human rights in manifold ways. For example, trade agreements can have an adverse impact on the rights to health or food by making essential medicines or goods less accessible or available. Or large-scale investment projects... more

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    Development policy affects human rights in manifold ways. For example, trade agreements can have an adverse impact on the rights to health or food by making essential medicines or goods less accessible or available. Or large-scale investment projects influence indigenous rights when they entail resettlement programs or the expropriation of traditional lands. Policy-makers have tried to tackle these issues by employing various impact assessment tools. These include, inter alia, the Sustainability Impact Assessments of EU trade agreements, and the impact assessments of projects by development finance institutions, which are commonly based upon the IFC Performance Standards. Traditionally, economic and environmental effects are at the centre of the existing tools, while social effects are only included to a lesser extent. This paper argues that the existing tools are insufficient for reasons that concern their legal status, their methodology and, in particular, their effectiveness. Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIA) promise to cure some of these shortcomings. In the paper, the specific added-value of HRIAs, methodological approaches and challenges, and potential fields of application of HRIAs in development policy will be addressed.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/98807
    Series: Working paper / ÖFSE, Österreichische Forschungsstiftung für Internationale Entwicklung ; 37
    Subjects: Menschenrechte; Entwicklungshilfe; Entwicklungspolitik; Wirkungsanalyse; Welt; Human Rights; Impact Assessment; Development Policy
    Scope: Online-Ressource (30 S.)
  2. The impact of the expansion of the Bolsa Família programme on the time allocation of youths and labour supply of adults
    Author: Chitolina, Lia; Foguel, Miguel Nathan; Menezes-Filho, Naercio Aquino
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Internat. Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, Brasilia

    This paper evaluates the impact of the 2007 expansion of the Bolsa Família programme to families with youths aged 16 to 17 years (Benefício Variável Jovem) on the time allocation of youths and on the labour supply of adults. The... more

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    This paper evaluates the impact of the 2007 expansion of the Bolsa Família programme to families with youths aged 16 to 17 years (Benefício Variável Jovem) on the time allocation of youths and on the labour supply of adults. The differences-in-difference estimator was used to compare households among the poorest 20 per cent with youths of 16 years of age with households in the same income bracket with youths of 15 years of age. The results show that granting the benefit had a significant and positive impact on school attendance and on the decision of young people to study and work at the same time. The effects on school attendance were stronger for males and when the child was the youngest in the household. With respect to the labour supply of parents, a positive impact was found on the mothers' probability of employment.

     
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    Language: English
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    hdl: 10419/119805
    Series: Working paper / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth ; 120
    Subjects: Bolsa Família Programme; Impact Assessment; Differences-in-Difference
    Scope: Online-Ressource ([24] S.)