Children in the International Political Economy

In: International Political Economy Ser.

Abstract

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- PART I FRAMEWORK AND SETTING -- 1 Responsibility -- Children's Conditions -- Children in Civil Society -- Children in Global Civil Society -- Overview -- 2 The Global Economy -- Division of Labor -- Debt and Structural Adjustment -- The Roots of Poverty -- Population and the Economy -- International Obligations -- PART II CHILDREN'S PROBLEMS -- 3 Mortality -- Priorities, Not Poverty -- Denial -- Intentionality -- Hatred? -- Genocide? -- 4 Child Labor -- Remedies -- Business-Like Schooling -- 5 Child Prostitution -- Trafficking -- Traveling Customers -- Economic Pressures -- Domestic Law -- International Control -- 6 Armed Conflict -- Trade Guns for Butter? -- International Humanitarian Law -- Implementation -- Implementing Article 38 -- The Question of Agency -- 7 Malnutrition -- Causes of Malnutrition -- Malnutrition and Mortality -- Growth Measurement -- Numbers of People Malnourished -- PART III THE HUMAN RIGHTS RESPONSE -- 8 Nutrition Rights -- History of Nutrition Rights -- Why Children? -- The Principle -- Multi-Layering -- Carrots, Not Sticks -- Funding -- Capping Entitlements -- Using Existing Programs -- Goals as Rights -- Nutrition Rights Advocacy -- 9 Children's Rights -- Soft vs. Hard Rights -- Rights Require Accountability -- Monitoring and Reporting on Rights -- International Nutrition Monitoring -- 10 International Children's Rights -- Rights to Assistance -- The Question of Consent -- Progressive Realization -- Chronic Conditions -- Development Assistance vs. Humanitarian Assistance -- The Principle Internationally -- International Nutrition Rights -- Implementation Internationally -- A Global Action Plan -- Sovereignty and Civilization -- Appendix: Data on Children -- Notes and References -- Select Bibliography -- Index.