{"id":3533,"date":"2018-03-15T09:03:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T13:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg-development\/?p=3533"},"modified":"2018-03-15T09:34:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T13:34:46","slug":"world-bank-human-rights-and-health-a-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/2018\/03\/15\/world-bank-human-rights-and-health-a-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"World Bank, Human Rights and Health: A Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Desmond McNeill<\/p>\n<p>The World Bank is reluctant to engage with human rights \u2013 generally, and more specifically in relation to health. Why? And what is to be done about it? This commentary summarizes the debate, showing that insiders and critical outsiders largely agree: the answer lies mainly in the instrumentalism of the organization and of economics. A recent Lancet viewpoint sets out how states may reconcile priority setting with the right to health. This commentary proposes that a similar approach may be applied in the World Bank: i.e., to set in motion a deliberative process within the organization to establish principles for ensuring fair allocation of resources devoted to health, derived from the core principles of human rights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/files\/2018\/03\/Spring-2018-Special-Issue.pdf#page=111\"><button>Full Text<\/button><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Desmond McNeill The World Bank is reluctant to engage with human rights \u2013 generally, and more specifically in relation to health. Why? And what is to be done about it? This commentary summarizes the debate, showing that insiders and critical outsiders largely agree: the answer lies mainly in the instrumentalism of the organization and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":585,"featured_media":3557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,419],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spring-2018-complete-issues","category-world-bank-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3534,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533\/revisions\/3534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}