Abstract

IBARRA, David. Democracy and Human Rights. Economía UNAM [online]. 2019, vol.16, n.47, pp.12-30.  Epub June 23, 2020. ISSN 1665-952X.  https://doi.org/10.22201/fe.24488143e.2019.47.460.

There is, and grows worse, inequality in the world in its three dimensions: among countries, social levels, and individuals. A hopeful antidote has been identified in a combination of democracy and amplified respect to human rights. However, there are obstacles that delay efforts to remodel societies with sustainable minimums of distributive equality. Inhibitor factors come from economic markets of characteristic conditions: open, dominant, immersed in competitiveness and efficiency, but far away from ethic principles of social conduction. Actually, practice of democracy and human rights respect have won a lot of terrain, but their progress is confined to national spaces, now that the world advances a lot to economic integration, and contributes little new ingredients to protect populations. As idealist as it may seem, conclusion is inevitable: the parameters of politic economy are to be modified so to gran much more importance of social development objectives, and to endow international economic order parallel objectives. No to do so signifies the risk to renew the “cold war”, and maybe to propitiate unnecessary convulsions in world stability.

Keywords : Quality of life; Economic Development; Political Economy of Capitalism; Government Policy of Regulation; I31; O1; P16; G18.