When government revenue is diverted to service debt, this negatively impacts the government’s ability to
meet human rights obligations. However, creditor and debtor countries hold divergent views on whether
debt is a human rights issue, with creditor countries asserting that these are contractual agreements that
are economic and technical in nature. Here, we try to answer the following question: should public and
publicly guaranteed debt be considered a human rights issue, and explore the pathways by which debt
service may impact human rights?
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Table of Contents
- Abstract ........................................................................................................................................... 2 1
- Introduction 1
- ................................................................................................................................... 3 1
- Hypothesis and objectives 1
- ........................................................................................................... 6 1
- Methods 1
- ......................................................................................................................................... 6 1
- Results ............................................................................................................................................. 7 1
- Discussion 1
- ................................................................................................................................... 13 1
- Conclusion 1
- ................................................................................................................................... 15 1
- References ..................................................................................................................................... 16 1
- Abstract 2
- Results 7
- Worldwide governance indicators 13
- Key results 13
- Limitations 13
- Revenue 14
- Representation 14
- Redistribution 14
- Regulation and Repricing 14
- Future research 15
- References 16
- Appendix -The potential for human rights if debt service is reduced to 5 of government revenue country level results 20
