ABSTRACT This article argues that in considering the effects of economic policy reform on women’s human rights, we must also consider the political economy mechanisms through which these effects operate. Treating the distribution of policy costs and benefits as outcomes of a given state of the world is unsatisfactory because economic policy reforms both shape and are shaped by those costs and benefits. Using a political economy model of economic policymaking, the article shows how the choice of economic policy and its impacts on women’s human rights are endogenous to various gendered political-economic forces, which have interest, institutional and ideational-based dynamics. It argues further that while the gender-related standards set out in the Guiding Principles on Foreign Debt and Human Rights are an ambitious step forward in addressing possible negative impacts on women’s human rights, their relative salience in the shaping of economic policy will be mediated by these same political-economic forces.

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经济政策和妇女人权：一个批判性的政治经济学视角

摘要 本文认为，在考虑经济政策改革对妇女人权的影响时，我们还必须考虑这些影响所通过的政治经济机制。将政策成本和收益的分配视为特定世界状态的结果是不能令人满意的，因为经济政策改革既塑造了这些成本和收益，又受这些成本和收益的影响。本文使用经济决策的政治经济学模型，展示了经济政策的选择及其对妇女人权的影响如何内生于各种性别政治经济力量，这些力量具有基于利益、制度和观念的动态。