Development as a Human Right
Legal, Political, and Economic Dimensions
Published on 1. October 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
350 pages
978-0-674-02121-1 (ISBN)
Description
The intrinsic links between economics and human rights has led some scholars and practitioners to affirm that if strategies of economic development and policies to implement human rights are united, they will reinforce one another and improve the human condition. This book draws on the papers presented at the Nobel Symposium on The Right to Development and Human Rights in Development. Opening with an essay by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, the book contains chapters by experts in the fields of philosophy, economics, international law and international relations on the conceptual underpinnings of development as a human right, the national dimensions of this right, and the role of international institutions. The contributors explore the meaning and practical implications of human rights - based approaches to economic development and ask what this relationship may add to our understanding and thinking about human and global development.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 162 mm
Weight
560 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-674-02121-1 (9780674021211)
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Persons
Bard A. Andreassen is Associate Professor at the Norwegian Center for Human Rights and Director of Research (Human Rights and Development) at the Law Faculty, University of Oslo. Stephen P. Marks is the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health and Director of the Human Rights in Development Program. Louise Arbour is the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights.