Reflections on the Right to Development

by Arjun Sengupta

• ISBN13: 9780761933700
• ISBN10: 0761933700
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-04
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(2)
Acknowledgements	9	(1)
Overview	10	(13)
Section I---An Introduction to RTD
The Human Rights Framework for Development: Seven Approaches	23	(38)
Stephen P. Marks
On the Theory and Practice of the Right to Development	61	(49)
Arjun Sengupta
An Essay on the Human Rights Approach to Development	110	(17)
Siddiqur Rahman Osmani
Right to Development: Where Are We Today?	127	(28)
Rajeev Malhotra
Section II---Studies in RTD
The Right to Development in Sri Lanka	155	(53)
Godfrey Gunatilleke
Public Action as Participatory Development: The Kerala Experience Re-interpreted	208	(35)
K.P. Kannan
N. Vijayamohanan Pillai
Poverty and Inequality in India: A Re-examination	243	(33)
Angus Deaton
Jean Dreze
The Right to Development and International Economic Regimes	276	(31)
Jayati Ghosh
Section III---Social Choice and RTD
Rights in the Social Choice Theoretic Framework: An Overview and Critical Appraisal	307	(14)
Satish K. Jain
The Right to Development and Human Rights: A Social Choice Approach to Implementation and Measurement	321	(29)
Manimay Sengupta
About the Editors and Contributors	350	(3)
Index	353