Development as a human right : legal, political, and economic dimensions / edited by Bard A. Andreassen, Stephen P. Marks.

Most essays presented at The Nobel Symposium on the Right to Development and Human Rights in Development (Oslo, 2003) and originally published in 2006. Essays revised and updated with a new foreword.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword to the second edition -- Foreword to the first edition -- Introduction -- pt I. Conceptual underpinnings. Human rights and development / Amartya Sen -- The human right to development / Arjun Sengupta -- The implications and value added of a rights-based approach / Jakob Kirkemann Hansen and Hans-Otto Sano -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- pt V. Conclusions.