This edited collection addresses some of the most important challenges in contemporary human rights law and practice. In it, leading experts explore the linkage between public finance, particularly budget decisions, and the realisation (or not) of economic and social rights. ...a timely book contributing to the scholarly literature on our understanding of how public finance policies and institutions affect human rights...The discussion is well integrated and cohesive...a sophisticated critique...[It] provides an important contribution to the intensifying debates about the impact of financial belt-tightening on many cherished human rights.