Confucius contended that the stability of society depends on unequal relationships between people, who have mutual and complementary obligations: the junior partner owes the senior respect and obedience; the senior partner owes the junior partner protection and consideration.
This alleged avoidable lack of sufficient funding for health within developing countries by the LICs themselves is the background for our argument that in addition to discussing obligations of HIC governments to, among other things, transfer health resources to LMICs, complementary obligations of the latter should also be emphasised.
In an appeal for discipline, Jowell writes: "There are complementary rights and obligations when it comes to the leadership of the Labour party: anyone may stand for the leadership, but once the winner is chosen, he or she is entitled to the loyalty and support of the party at every level.
Therefore, in contrast with cases in which incentives crowd-out cooperative behavior, in our experiments obligations and incentives are complementary, jointly supporting high levels of contributions.
Permanent Protection visas are for people who are already in Australia who apply for protection (or asylum) and who are found to meet Australia's protection obligations under the Refugees Convention or the complementary protection criteria [ 7].
Our results show that a systematic improvement of precautionary complementary psychosocial care for risk patients is needed as well as the obligation of psychiatric emergency consultation before involuntary hospitalization.
For this reason, a possible additional and complementary measure that could be taken is to include some subsistence rights obligations in short-term ceasefire agreements.
We argue that the international obligation for states in a position to cooperate and provide assistance is a complementary or supplementary obligation that does not limit or qualify the primary obligation of the state to spend the maximum of available resources towards achieving the right to health, and all other rights, not just the minimum core [ 19, 22].
The management of these principles, roles, and obligations can be highly complex, and conflict may arise since they are not necessarily complementary or mutually exclusive.
Though humanitarian agencies provide a complementary role to the state, entrenching their approach that is often bound by humanitarian law may be contradictory to the state obligation on human rights, which place the primary obligation on the state.
