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12 - Human Rights Informed the Sustainable Development Goals, but Are They Lost in New Zealand's Neoliberal Aid Program?

from PART III - Economic and Social Rights in Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2018

By
Carmel Williams  and
Alison Blaiklock
Edited by
Gillian MacNaughton  and
Diane F. Frey
Gillian MacNaughton
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Diane F. Frey
Affiliation:
San Francisco State University
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Economic and Social Rights in a Neoliberal World , pp. 236 - 260
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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