The 2013 Human Development Report – "The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World" – examines the profound shift in global dynamics driven by the fast-rising new powers of the developing world and its long-term implications for human development.China has already overtaken Japan...

This paper uses Sen’s capability approach to explore whether there are inherent contradictions between human rights and development. Sen’s capability and human development approach provides a conceptual framework within which human rights principles can be incorporated into development...