Development As a Human Right

This book explores the meaning and practical implications of the right to development and the related term of human rights-based approaches to development and ask what these conceptions may add to our understanding and thinking about human and global development.

Bård A. Andreassen is Professor at the Norwegian Center for Human Rights and Director of Research (human rights and development) at the Law Faculty, University of Oslo.Stephen P. Marks is François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health and a Senior Fellow at the University Committee on Human Rights Studies at Harvard.