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Human Rights and International Political Economy in Third World Nations - Multinational Corporations, Foreign Aid, and Repression (Hardcover)
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Human Rights and International Political Economy in Third World Nations - Multinational Corporations, Foreign Aid, and Repression (Hardcover)
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What impact do international economic inputs have on human rights
in Third World nations? William Meyer explores the effects of
direct investment by U.S. multinational corporations, economic and
military aid, and MNC manufacturing plants. He examines the
international political economy of human rights at both the
national and the international levels. Case studies are combined
with quantitative studies that use aggregate cross-national data,
and theories that link MNCs to human rights are subjected to
empirical testing. As Meyer illustrates, at the national level,
human rights violations are associated with U.S. MNCs in Chile,
Honduras, India, Indonesia, and Mexico. MNCs have been especially
guilty of violating labor rights, particularly through their
reliance on sweatshops. MNCs have also been responsible for
widespread pollution and environmental degradation. At a broader
international level, increased investment by MNCs tends to go along
with human rights improvements in the Third World as a whole. Meyer
shows that there is a broad positive relationship between direct
investment by MNCs and broader political rights and improved living
standards. Aggregate data are also analyzed for human rights as
compared to U.S. economic and military aid. Economic aid is found
to be associated with improved civil-political rights and improved
socioeconomic rights. Military aid, by contrast, is associated with
declining levels of civil rights and with lower levels of social
welfare. This book will serve as an important study for
researchers, activists, and students of human rights.
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