Socioeconomic rights won't make huge difference: political scientist
By Himal Kotelawala
Though it may greatly satisfy civil society activists on a superficial level, there is little evidence to suggest that the constitutionalisation of socioeconomic rights will make a vast difference to governance, a senior political scientist with extensive international and South Asian experience said on Tuesday.
Delivering a public lecture on the implications of incorporating socioeconomic rights to the proposed new constitution, Prof. Pratap Bhanu Mehta