Topic > Are international institutions a global public good?

This includes the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. In 2013, the World Bank launched a project in Ethiopia that involved a process called villageization, which required the forced relocation of Ethiopia's indigenous people (Evans, 2013). Individuals within the deliberative school of human rights would be very upset by this violation because they so closely associate human rights with culture, and an indigenous person removed from their home violates that person's cultural rights. Sarfaty (2009), further highlights the importance of financial institutions recognizing culture, advising the World Bank to create policies regarding three things: the effect of its plans on human rights, a country's responsibility under international human rights law and when to halt operations due to human rights violations (p. 648). Similar patterns can be observed when evaluating the IMF. Eriksen and Soysa (2009) argue that “their [IMF] loans are associated with increases in human rights, but these rights deteriorate when countries face financial crises” (p. 498). When you look at countries like Jamaica, which claims that its economy has been severely damaged by cooperation with the IMF, the claim made by Eriksen and Soysa begins to have some validity. Evans (2013), makes an eloquent point that can be applied to all international financial institutions when he states that “the