Some very interesting and accessible resources have been developed in the past few years that explore the impact of macroeconomic policies on governments' budgets and human rights:

• ActionAid.  Contradicting commitments (2005).  This report discusses how the achievement of Education for All is undermined by the IMF. The report intends to demonstrate the IMF's role in constraining countries from increasing public expenditure in education in order to be able to meet the Education for All and Millennium Development Goals.

• ActionAid. Confronting the Contradictions. (2007). This report addresses the chronic and severe shortage of teachers in three countries in Africa, and investigates the role in the situations of IMF policies with regard to wage bill ceilings. The report ends with useful recommendations to civil society for how best to address macroeconomic policies in research and advocacy.

• ActionAid and Education International. Toolkit on Education Financing (2009). The toolkit provides basic information about education financing, including about key issues facing education systems, key issues in education financing, how to develop a campaign on education financing, and how to build a national evidence base.

• Radhika Balakrishnan & Diane Elson. Auditing Economic Policy in the Light of Obligations on Economic and Social Rights (2008) considers how concerned citizens might audit economic policies from a human rights perspective, which a particular focus on economic and social rights.  The paper draws on a project on economic policy and social rights in Mexico and the USA, aiming to audit key economic policies in the two countries in the light of human rights obligations and the analysis produced by “non-conformist” economists.

• Radhika Balakrishnan and Diane Elson. Why MES with Human Rights? Integrating Macro Economic Strategies with Human Rights (2005) focuses on the human rights impacts in Mexico and the United States of public expenditure, taxation and trade policies, monetary and fiscal policies, as well as regulation and pension reform.

• Radhika Balakrishnan, Diane Elson and Raj Patel.  Rethinking Macro Economic Strategies from a Human Rights Perspective: Why MES with Human Rights II (2010) draws on a two-year collaborative effort that examined human rights and macroeconomic policies in Mexico and the United States.  The document proposes a novel focus and methodology to evaluate macroeconomic policies from the perspective of the progressive realization of people’s economic and social human rights, and States’ compliance with their minimal, basic responsibilities to their people.