"Conference held at the New York University Law School in 2004.

The challenges of ensuring the mutuality of human rights and development endeavours / Philip Alston and Mary Robinson -- Some reflections on human rights and development / James D. Wolfensohn -- What rights can add to good development practice / Mary Robinson -- Democracy and the right to food / Jean Drèze -- Social rights and economics : claims to health care and education in developing countries / Varun Gauri -- The properties of gender equality / Kerry Rittich -- The development impact of gender equality in land rights / Karen O. Mason and Helene M. Carlsson -- Women's property rights violations in Kenya / Janet Walsh -- Child labor, education, and children's rights / Gordon Betcherman ... [et al.] -- Child labour, education, and the principle of non-discrimination / Elizabeth D. Gibbons, Friedrich Huebler, and Edilberto Loaiza -- Human rights and public goods : education as a fundamental right in India / Philip Alston and Nehal Bhuta -- The impact of human rights principles on justice reform in the Inter-American Development Bank / Christina Biebesheimer -- Less law and reform, more politics and enforcement : a civil society approach to integrating rights and development / Stephen Golub -- Putting human rights principles into development practice through finance : the experience of the International Finance Corporation / Peter Woicke -- Human rights and governance : the empirical challenge / Daniel Kaufmann -- Transnational corporations as instruments of human development / Olivier de Schutter -- Poverty reduction strategy papers within the human rights perspective / Frances Stewart and Michael Wang -- Human rights and poverty reduction strategies : moving towards convergence? / Gobind Nankani, John Page, and Lindsay Judge -- Human rights, poverty reduction strategies, and the role of the International Monetary Fund / Mark W. Plant -- The legal aspects of the World Bank's work on human rights : some preliminary thoughts / Roberto Dañino.