David Kinley | Too Big to Fail? Making Global Finance Pay for Human Rights
The lecture develops arguments as to how global finance can be made part of the solution to greater human rights protection, not just part of the problem. It investigates the relationship between human rights and such matters as remittances, tax regimes, foreign direct investment, debt forgiveness, the management of sovereign wealth funds, innovative development financing, philanthrocapitalism, and the critical differences and connections between the real and paper economies. The relative capacities of global finance to do great harm to human rights as well as its potential to do great good are canvassed, and the role that human rights law and policy does and might play analyzed and assessed.
Recorded on October 28, 2010.
Full title: To Big to Fail?--Making Global Finance Pay for Human Rights.
Appearing: David Kinley (University of Sydney), speaker.