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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Right to Development

Gianna Alessandra Sanchez Moretti, Shyami Puvimanasinghe

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 16 February 2025

Subject(s):
Natural resources — Economic, social, and cultural rights — Environment and energy policy — Economic development

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1. Although a certain degree of debate surrounds the right to development (RTD) (Kamga and Fombad 199-202), and there is some ‘difficulty of describing it within the confines of a single definition’ (Secretary-General 7), the international and regional definitions are paving the way towards the enshrinement of the RTD in national constitutions and legal frameworks around the world. 2. As a result of the initial commitment of a group of African and Asian countries to advocate for and promote their peoples’ RTD, rights to self-determination, and rights to natural...
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