TY - BOOK ID - 135560427 TI - Human Rights Based Approaches to Development : Concepts, Evidence, and Policy AU - Gauri, Varun AU - Gloppen, Siri PY - 2012 PB - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Constitutions KW - Development policy KW - Gender and Law KW - Health Law KW - Human Rights KW - Human rights KW - International law KW - Law and Development KW - Macroeconomics and Economic Growth KW - Parliamentary Government KW - Population Policies KW - Social policy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135560427 AB - This paper assesses the benefits, risks, and limitations of human rights based approaches to development, which can be catalogued on the basis of the institutional mechanisms they rely on: global compliance based on international and regional treaties; the policies and programming of donors and executive agencies; rights talk; and legal mobilization. The paper briefly reviews the politics of the first three kinds of human rights based approaches before examining constitutionally based legal mobilization for social and economic rights in greater detail. Litigation for social and economic rights is increasing in frequency and scope in several countries, and exhibits appealing attributes, such as inclusiveness and deliberative quality. Still, there are potential problems with this form of human rights based mobilization, including middle class capture, the potential counter-majoritarianism of courts, and difficulties in compliance. The conclusion summarizes what is known, and what remains to be studied, regarding human rights based approaches to development. ER -