Reflections on the Right To DevelopmentArjun Sengupta, Archna Negi, Moushumi Basu SAGE Publications India, 2005 M12 13 - 368 pages This important contribution to the understanding of the Right to Development (RTD) presents it as a viable alternative to existing approaches to development. The essays in this volume are grouped into three sections. Part One introduces the concept of RTD and discusses its theoretical and historical aspects, highlighting its normative content and identifying implementation issues. Part Two contains empirical case studies from India and Sri Lanka and examines national development policies from the RTD perspective. The third part explores the links between social choice and the right to development. |
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... Practice of the Right to Development Arjun Sengupta III An Essay on the Human Rights Approach to Development Siddiqur Rahman Osmani IV Right to Development: Where Are We Today? Rajeev Malhotra Section IIStudies in RTD V The Right to ...
... Practice of the Right to Development Arjun Sengupta III An Essay on the Human Rights Approach to Development Siddiqur Rahman Osmani IV Right to Development: Where Are We Today? Rajeev Malhotra Section IIStudies in RTD V The Right to ...
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... practices. The chapter also recommends various changes in the TRIPS Agreement which, according to Ghosh, infringes on RTD. Setting off the debate in terms of the motive of social good rather than private profit, she asserts that in ...
... practices. The chapter also recommends various changes in the TRIPS Agreement which, according to Ghosh, infringes on RTD. Setting off the debate in terms of the motive of social good rather than private profit, she asserts that in ...
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... practice. They represented divergent priorities of the competing ideological blocks. In the post-Cold War period there is no longer an ideological rationale for favouring one category of rights over another. The holistic approach ...
... practice. They represented divergent priorities of the competing ideological blocks. In the post-Cold War period there is no longer an ideological rationale for favouring one category of rights over another. The holistic approach ...
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... practices, and both are essential for human dignity. The UNDP Human Development Report for the year 2000 (HDR 2000) on ... practice the exercise of civil and political rights has been instrumental in empowering poor people and advancing ...
... practices, and both are essential for human dignity. The UNDP Human Development Report for the year 2000 (HDR 2000) on ... practice the exercise of civil and political rights has been instrumental in empowering poor people and advancing ...
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... practice based on ideas of reformism that seek to bring the technological advances of modernity to the poor (developmentalism). He is also critical of the human rights movement for failing to attach sufficient importance to economic ...
... practice based on ideas of reformism that seek to bring the technological advances of modernity to the poor (developmentalism). He is also critical of the human rights movement for failing to attach sufficient importance to economic ...
Contents
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An Essay on the Human Rights Approach to Development | 110 |
Where Are We Today? | 127 |
The Right to Development in Sri Lanka | 155 |
The Kerala Experience Reinterpreted | 208 |
A Reexamination | 243 |
The Right to Development and International Economic Regimes | 276 |
An Overview and Critical Appraisal | 307 |
A Social Choice Approach to Implementation and Measurement | 321 |
About the Editors and Contributors | 350 |
Index | 353 |
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| Title | Reflections on the Right To Development |
| Editors | Arjun Sengupta, Archna Negi, Moushumi Basu |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications India, 2005 |
| ISBN | 8132102142, 9788132102144 |
| Length | 368 pages |
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