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Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World
In Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World, World Policy Institute Senior Fellow Ian Bremmer illustrates a historic shift in the international system and the world economy—and an unprecedented moment of global uncertainty.
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Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
Dans le fait les lois sont toujours utiles à ceux qui possèdent et nuisibles à ceux qui n’ont rien. D’où il suit que l’état social n’est avantageux aux hommes qu’autant qu’ils ont tous quelque chose et qu’aucun d’eux n’a rien de trop. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Du Contrat Social
We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people – whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth – is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure…We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. “Necessitous men are not free men.” Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 11 January 1944 message to Congress on the State of the Union
The political costs of inequality:
- Philadelphia Inquirer, Sacramento Bee, June 2000: Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador — Democracy is a little more than a word amidst extreme inequality
- El Mensajero, julio de 2000: El “arco de crisis” de América Latina: Donde hay desigualdad, la democracia es poco más que una palabra
- Journal of Commerce, May 2000: Why diamond-rich Sierra Leone is falling apart
Another cost of inequality: Corruption:
- Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index (table | map)
Franklin Roosevelt on social and economic rights:
- 1941 State of the Union message: The Four Freedoms
- 1944 State of the Union message: The Economic Bill of Rights
Treaties:
- Global: International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: ratified by: (maps | tables)
- Americas: Additional Protocol on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights A-52: ratified by: (maps | tables)
- Europe: European Social Charter (revised) ETS #163 ratified by: (maps | tables)
Statistical indicators:
- United Nations Development Program Human Development Reports
- Human Development Index: (tables | maps)
- Life expectancy at birth: (tables | maps)
- Income inequality as reflected in gini coefficients: (maps)
Global Democracy and Human Rights Home
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Life_Expectancy_2008_Estimates_CIA_World_Factbook.svg
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