ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the duties, obligations, or responsibilities that are entailed by the right to development. The right to development was originally asserted as a claim against the developed countries, in the context of what was perceived as a perpetuation of colonialism through economic domination and exploitation. The right to development of developing countries, then, is seriously infringed by international arrangements that have been initiated or sustained by the governments of developed countries, in breach of a basic obligation not to cause harm or damage to others. A clearly focused "right to development" could provide a unifying rubric for the different agendas of this movement and would have a much more critical purchase than simplistic slogans of anti-globalization. Providing evidence of damage to development or infringements of the right to development sets the practice of development assistance in a different moral light.
