The mechanism of the World Bank: A Critical Comparison with CARO’s Universal Governance Framework and Equitism

Abstract: This study criticizes the World Bank Group’s neoliberal development model’s ongoing inability to alleviate global inequality and attributes this shortcoming to its reliance on capital-intensive, voluntary growth strategies. The study compares the Bank’s strategy to the Universal Governance Framework (UGF), a new paradigm based on “Equitism” that promotes enforceable redistribute justice, using a qualitative…

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Socio-Economic Rights in the Constitution: From Principle to Practice

Abstract Socio-economic rights (SERs) in the Constitution of Bangladesh formally assure access to education, health, food, housing, employment, and social security, which are essential for dignity and equality, but they are placed in the non-justiciable Part II as Fundamental Principles of State Policy, creating an ongoing disparity between principles and implementation. This study aims to…

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Fairness as a Meta-Norm: Structural Legitimacy and the Meta-Right to Structural Fairness

Abstract Political philosophy has long located legitimacy in the fairness of procedures, the justice of outcomes, or the acceptability of coercive rules under conditions of public reason. On the standard picture, if institutions follow fair rules, respect fundamental rights, and operate with moral integrity, their authority is at least minimally justified (Rawls, 1971; Scanlon, 1998;…

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