1. Filling Empty Promises? Foreign Aid and Human Rights Decoupling, 1981-2011.
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Wei, Qian and Swiss, Liam
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INTERNATIONAL economic assistance , *HUMAN rights - Abstract
Despite extensive literature examining human rights decoupling between treaty commitments and practices, little research has addressed how to fill these empty promises. This paper proposes a mechanism neglected in prior studies that might play an important role in narrowing human rights decoupling and improving world society model compliance: foreign aid. Using longitudinal analysis on a sample of 120 aid-receiving countries between 1981 and 2011, we find: total aid has a significant effect on reducing human rights decoupling; aid to good governance shows a similar pattern but the impact is much weaker; by contrast, aid to human rights has limited influence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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