The Right to Development

Lindroos, Anja
Erik Castrén Institute Research Reports 2/1999 Forum Iuris, Helsinki 1999.

The legal status and even the usefulness of a "right to development" has been a source of confrontation between the South and the North since the early 1970s. What is the right to development a right to? Who are the beneficiaries of that right? Who has the corresponding obligation? These are among the questions discussed in the present study. The right to development is being examined from both a legal and a political perspective, and dissected into its various components with the aim of outlining its "hard core."