Eradication of Poverty through Human Rights Economy Full Paper

Jose Cuesta [Lead Economist, Social Sustainability and Inclusion Global Practice, The World Bank]

Great contribution of the paper is to tell us how to move towards an HRE. Very comprehensive, detailed, and compelling. Why we needed and how to articulate it. Absolutely clear. There is nothing on principles like better accountability and transparency, more equitable spending and progressive taxation, more focus on climate change, tackling discrimination, clear well-functioning dispute settlement mechanisms, emphasis in care and support systems, and a long etcetera, that one would oppose in terms of reducing growth or efficiency opportunities. 

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We concluded that the sixth most vulnerable groups were receiving much less benefits than they should have based on their size and their gaps in equal opportunities understood as their ability to attend school. We could then measure those gaps across our 16 groups; rank groups based on those gaps; and estimate the cost of additional investments to close such opportunity gaps for those 6 groups. We could also know how much of those resources would be spent on cities vs rural areas. 

We need that kind of more granular analysis!