Global governance: Old and new challenges

The current world economic crisis has highlighted a profound challenge to conventional thinking on and approaches to human rights, especially the right to development. Human rights, primarily economic and social rights, are based on a theory of constant expansion of the economic pie for all, and the right to development is explicitly predicated on the idea of the nation State leading the ever-increasing process of economic and social well-being of its citizens through international cooperation and solidarity.

Related Subject(s): Economic and Social Development