Development As a Human Right - Legal, Political, and Economic Dimensions

The intrinsic links between economics and humanrights has led some scholars and practitioners to affirm that if strategies ofeconomic development and policies to implement human rights are united, they willreinforce one another and improve the human condition. This book draws on the papers presented at theNobel Symposium on The Right to Development and Human Rights in Development. Openingwith an essay by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, the book contains chapters by expertsin the fields of philosophy, economics, international law, and internationalrelations on the conceptual underpinnings of development as a human right, thenational dimensions of this right, and the role of international institutions. Thecontributors explore the meaning and practical implications of human rights-basedapproaches to economic development and ask what this relationship may add to ourunderstanding and thinking about human and global development.