Return to search

Who Benefits? The Effects of Foreign Aid and Foreign Direct Investment on Human Rights

The global emphasis on human rights has generated a surge of studies into what causes regimes to abuse the basic rights of their citizens. Causes of abuse can be internal or external in nature, based on economics, politics or cultures. This study examines the effects of foreign aid and foreign direct investment on three types of human rights: personal integrity, civil and political, and subsistence. I perform ordinary least squares regression analyses with panel-corrected standard errors on a pooled cross-sectional time series design incorporating 127 countries from 1976 to 1996. While my results are not significant, it is important to observe that there is a tendency toward negative relationships for the majority of the analyses.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc3637
Date05 1900
CreatorsMoses, Misty
ContributorsMeernik, James, Poe, Steven, Reban, Milan
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
FormatText
RightsPublic, Copyright, Moses, Misty, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Page generated in 0.0016 seconds