Abstract
Increasing attention is now being given to linking social protection with human rights. This article accounts for the change in strategy in terms of the failure of a development agenda heretofore dominated not just by neoliberalism but, more generally, the rationality of economics as science. A case is made that the World Bank is resisting human rights because it doesn’t want to give up the prevailing, scientized definition of ‘human’ enabling World Bank hegemony.
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Higgitt, R. Social Protection, Human Rights, and Please. Development 58, 564–570 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41301-016-0043-z
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