The right to development in Africa / / Carol Chi Ngang.

• Superior document: Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 201/11
• VerfasserIn: Ngang, Carol Chi,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 201/11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

In The Right to Development in Africa , Carol Chi Ngang provides a conceptual analysis of the human right to development with a decolonial critique of the requirement to have recourse to development cooperation as a mechanism for its realisation. In his argumentation, the setbacks to development in...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgement
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Foreword
• Chapter
• 1. Introduction - Africa's Development Setbacks in Context
• Overview
• Background
• Approach and structure
• 2. Historical Account on the Right to Development
• Introduction
• Origins of the right to development
• Evolution of the right to development
• Conceptual clarity
• Concluding remarks
• 3. Global Dynamics and the Geopolitics of Development Cooperation
• Introduction
• Cooperation framework for development
• Development cooperation and the right to development
• Asserting the right to development in Africa
• Concluding remarks
• 4. A Dispensation for Socio-Economic and Cultural Self-Determination
• Introduction
• Framework for implementation
• Safeguard measures The duty to protect
• Concluding remarks
• 5. Right to Development Governance for Africa
• Introduction
• Incongruities and the complex dynamics in Africa
• Right to development regulatory mechanisms
• Right to development governance
• Concluding remarks
• 6. Conclusion - Right to Development Policy Imperatives for Africa
• Concluding highlights
• Imperative for political action
• Final remarks
• Bibliography
• Index.