VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee

Since 1948, the Constitution of the Republic of Korea has been amended nine times. In these decades, the country saw periods of being a democratic state and of being a dictatorship before once again turning into a democracy, which has become very...

In 2004 South Korea’s Constitutional Court declared the newly revised Political Parties Act constitutional, whereby it reaffirmed the prohibition of local party organizations by law. Party chapters represent the “party on the ground” and lie...

Between the 1870ies and the outbreak of the Pacific war in 1937 Japan and China undertook fundamental changes in their traditional legal systems by way of legislation strongly following continental Europen models. These changes were not based on...

The Indonesian legal system is often described as an ‘unguided chaos’. It is characterised by Indonesia’s cultural diversity and different legal sources and traditions. On the one hand the system is based on indigenous law on the other hand it...

This paper assesses from an international law perspective the increasing use of “Do No Harm” as a principle to guide a broad array of international activities, such as state-building, human rights and climate change. Originally a medical...

Program-for-results (PforR) is an innovative instrument of World Bank financing which links disbursements to results in country-defined programs. This recently adopted instrument seeks to give recipient countries a greater sense of participation,...

The five fast-growing economies, known collectively as BRICS, have recently announced their intention to create their own development bank. The so-called BRICS Bank will be the first world multilateral development bank controlled solely by emerging...

The present article examines how the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank Group’s private sector finance institution, has integrated labour standards concerns into its environmental and social policy. Providing finance to...

A vast majority of states have formally committed to respect, protect, and progressively fulfill the right to social security by ratifying human rights and ILO conventions. Accordingly, social security systems should guarantee indiscriminate access...

South Africa has a large social assistance programme that plays a critical role in addressing extreme poverty. The strong constitutional rights framework, including a right to social security, underpins the development of this programme. Women are...

A vast majority of states have formally committed to respect, protect, and progressively fulfill the right to social security by ratifying human rights and ILO conventions. Accordingly, social security systems should guarantee indiscriminate access...

In the last 25 years, Vietnam has been one of the fastest growing economies in Asia. Regarding social protection and social insurance, there are many practical challenges ahead. In 2012, only 10.4 million workers were enrolled in compulsory social...

Since the 1930s Brazil has been slowly building its welfare state. In the wake of struggles and political clashes to ensure rights and revive democracy, the Constitution of 1988 brought about an important shift, as it established economic and social...

For all involved, the structuring and reform of social security systems in developing countries not only faces manifold political and economic challenges, but also raises numerous legal questions. These range from the matter of which provisions of...