The emergence of the right to development

The concept of “development” is fundamental to the present study. Yet few terms have been used to convey so many different notions or been subject to as many successive revisions in interpretation. Growing awareness of the complexity of the development process has served to underline the difficulty of describing it within the confines of a single definition. It is possible, nevertheless, to discern the emergence in the years leading up to this report of a strong consensus on the principal definitional elements of the term.

Related Subject(s): Economic and Social Development