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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Arjun Sengupta; Archna Negi; Moushumi Basu |
ISBN: | 0761933700 9780761933700 817829513X 9788178295138 |
OCLC Number: | 60349153 |
Description: | 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | An introduction to RTD -- The human rights framework for development : seven approaches / Stephen P. Marks -- On the theory and practice of the right to development / Arjun Sengupta -- An essay on the human rights approach to development / Siddiqur Rahman Osmani -- Right to development : where are we today? / Rajeev Malhotra -- Studies in RTD -- The right to development in Sri Lanka / Godfrey Gunatilleke -- Public action as participatory development : the Kerala experience re-interpreted / K.P. Kannan and N. Vijayamohanan Pillai -- Poverty and inequality in India : a re-examination / Angus Deaton and Jean Drèze -- The right to development and international economic regimes / Jayati Ghosh -- Social choice and RTD -- Rights in the social choice theoretic framework : an overview and critical appraisal / Satish K. Jain -- The right to development and human rights : a social choice approach to implementation and measurement / Manimay Sengupta. |
Responsibility: | edited by Arjun Sengupta, Archna Negi, Moushumi Basu. |
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Abstract:
Gives an alternative to existing development approaches. The essays introduce the RTD concept, discuss it, highlight its normative content and identify implementation issues; contain empirical case studies from India and Sri Lanka and examine national development policies; and explore the links between social choice and the right to development.
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The book Reflections...is an effort to elucidate the normative and functional framework of the right to development... this book enables some extent of conceptual robustness to appreciate the vision of the right to development. -- Journal of South Asian Development Read more...
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