Humanizing Sustainable Development

When the UN published its Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, it introduced a new world paradigm that paved the way for a conceptualization of a “social contract”. This social contract posited that everyone was entitled “through national effort and international cooperation” inherent economic and cultural rights inseparable from their dignity and the “free development […]

The Development Project of the 50s and 60s: A Modernization Theory Approach The term development in world history might be said to have gained prominence following the end of the Second World War. In light of decolonization movements across the world demanding their own rights to self-determination and economic advancement and the growing prominence of […]