Development as a human right
Subtitle: legal, political, and economic dimensions
By: edited by Bård A. Andreassen and Stephen P. Marks ; foreword by Louise Arbour.
Contributors: Andreassen, Bard-Anders.; Marks, Stephen P., 1943-
Publisher: Harvard School of Public Health, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Boston; Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780674021211
Subjects: Human rights -- Economic aspects.; Economic development -- Social aspects.
Notes: "A Nobel Symposium book, Nobel Symposium 125."

"The Nobel Symposium on the Right to Development and Human Rights in Development (Oslo, Norway, October 13-15, 2003)"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction / Stephen P. Marks and Bard A. Andreassen; value: pt I. Conceptual underpinnings. Human rights and development / Amartya Sen ; The human right to development / Arjun Sengupta; value: The implications and value added of a rights-based approach / Jakob Kirkemann Hansen and Hans-Otto Sano; value: pt II. Duties and responsibilities. Obligations to implement the right to development: philosophical, political, and legal rationales / Stephen P. Marks ; The right to development and its corresponding obligations / David Beetham ; International human rights obligations in context: structural obstacles and the demands of global justice / Margot E. Salomon ; Development and the human rights responsibilities of non-state actors / Bard A. Andreassen; value: pt III. National realities and challenges. Redesigning the state for "right development" / Yash Ghai ; Making a difference: human rights and development, reflecting on the South African experience / Sandra Liebenberg ; Towards implementing the right to development: a framework for indicators and monitoring methods / Rajeev Malhotra; value: pt IV. International institutions and global processes. Human rights-based development in the age of economic globalization: background and prospects / Asbjørn Eide ; Globalization and the human rights approach to development / Siddiq Osmani ; Advocating the right to development through complaint procedures under human rights treaties / Martin Scheinin ; The role of the international financial institutions in a rights-based approach to the process of development / Sigrun I. Skogly; value: pt V. Conclusions.