Papers by Radhika Balakrishnan
Feminist Economics, Apr 3, 2014
propose a novel focus and methodology that allows us to evaluate macroeconomic policies from the ... more propose a novel focus and methodology that allows us to evaluate macroeconomic policies from the perspective of the progressive realization of the people's economic and social human rights, and the States' compliance with their minimal, basic responsibilities to their people.
Routledge eBooks, Mar 31, 2016
Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, 2019
Development in Practice, 2012
Review of Radical Political Economics, 1991
What is the relationship between human rights and inequalities in income and wealth? Different ap... more What is the relationship between human rights and inequalities in income and wealth? Different approaches to understanding inequality have distinct implications for how we think about issues of well-‐being and social justice. The human rights framework offers an approach that stands in marked contrast to neoclassical economic theory. The human rights approach has started to engage more thoroughly with the question of inequalities in income and wealth, but offers only partial guidance on the implications of increasingly polarized societies. This paper looks at how income and wealth inequality affects realized outcomes with regard to the enjoyment of specific rights and how the distribution of resources affects political dynamics and power relations within which specific rights are realized.
Australian Journal of Human Rights, 2018
For a monograph that is relatively concise, 'Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justic... more For a monograph that is relatively concise, 'Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice: The Radical Potential of Human Rights' addresses some big issues in economics and international human rights law. Motivated by indignation at the state of global poverty and at unrelenting economic crises in the world, authors Radhika Balakrishnan, James Heintz, and Diane Elson have penned the book with a view to questioning the world economic order from a human rights perspective.This book review evaluates the efficacy of this approach.
The Elgar Companion to Marxist Economics
Inequality Studies from the Global South, 2020
Economic Policy and Human Rights, 2011
Economic Policy and Human Rights, 2011
This study investigates if the level of discretionary accruals (DAs) is different for companies w... more This study investigates if the level of discretionary accruals (DAs) is different for companies whose corporate governance level is certified by Bovespa compared to those ones that are not. And also for companies whose stocks negotiated at Bovespa have high liquidity compared to the ones with low liquidity. The main purpose is to comprehend the phenomenon of accounting choices (measured as DAs), its incentives and counter-incentives. In this context, the issues were: i) Is there any difference of DAs intensity between certified and non-certified companies, considering the corporate governance level?; ii) Is there any difference of DAs intensity with high liquidity stocks at Bovespa and those ones with low liquidity? This research took into consideration Jones` original model (1991), a sample with 1,791 observations collected from 1997 to 2004. Empirical results from our study show that there is no significant statistic difference in the level of DAs between the firms listed or not in the corporate governance index. This suggests the need to consider incentives and counter-incentives from the capital market to those different set of firms, in relation with accounting choices.
The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Economics, 2021
By December 1990 57 cases of AIDS and 4696 cases of HIV infection had been reported in India to t... more By December 1990 57 cases of AIDS and 4696 cases of HIV infection had been reported in India to the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO however estimates that up to 500000 people in India may actually be infected with HIV. The government of India and medical authorities however have thus far reacted with only hysteria and misinformation. Their actions constitute a clear breach of professional ethics and are occurring despite the availability of ample funding and existing knowledge of the social and medical ramifications of AIDS. On August 13 two days before Indias Independence Day demonstrations were held in New York San Francisco Chicago Toronto and London to bring attention to the state of AIDS in India. In each city slogans were chanted speeches given and a list of demand given to consular officials. The organizers of the demonstration in New York formed India AIDS Action (IAA) in the Summer of 1991 to educate the South Asian community residing in the US on the health issues...
This chapter suggests that achieving sustainable development requires a change in the current eco... more This chapter suggests that achieving sustainable development requires a change in the current economic system. Moreover, it advances the idea that an economic system based on the fulfillment of human rights and a peace and security agenda must consider what polices are needed to achieve sustainable peace, beyond the absence of war and violence. The chapter observes that in order to examine the issues surrounding women, peace, and security it is critical to unpack the relationship between existing economic policy and violent conflicts, and to consider how women are disproportionately affected at this intersection. If the fulfillment of human rights was at the center of economic policymaking, the chapter argues, the way in which the state gets and distributes resources would be very different.
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