This book collects the essays of a distinguished group of scholars, practitioners and
officials focusing on Asia, one of the key areas of the developing world. The themes
presented in this book reflect topical challenges faced by this continent in its much striven
efforts for development. The editors’ intention has been to promote the knowledge of the
perception by Asian Countries of their developing needs and of the policy measures
that can be used to foster development. What is the role assigned, in the perspective of key
Asian countries, to crucial factors like fundamental rights, the rule of law, environmental
protection, trade liberalization? The concepts of development, environmental
protection, climate change, use and distribution of natural resources are discussed through
the well-known paradigm of sustainable development. But this exercise is more focused, being carried out through the lens of key ideas, and from the perspective of the various countries-areas and the personal
views of the respective authors. These key notions are the rights to life and to development,
and more generally human rights, equitable distribution of resources, common but differentiated
responsibility, the pivotal role of finance, trade and knowledge-and-technology
transfer to developing countries to trigger and support sustainable development.
Analyzing the challenges of development from an Asian perspective does not lead to
results which are only of limited interest to this continent. It is exactly because of its
protean complexity that Asia can offer useful lessons for development in other areas of the
developing world – and maybe even beyond.
CONTENTS:
FRANCESCO BESTAGNO - LUCA RUBINI, Introduction
SEEMA SAPRA, Sustainable Development and the Role of the Indian Supreme Court
ZHIXIONG HUANG, The Right to Development: The Chinese Perspective
GIUSEPPE GABUSI, From the Roaring Nineties’ to the Doha Stalemate: China’s Development within the WTO Negotiation Framework
CELINE TAN, Financing for Sustainable Development: The Challenges Ahead for Asian Economies
STEFANO INAMA, Is South-South Regionalism in South-East Asia Really Liberalizing Trade? The Implementation of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area
SIMONA BERETTA, Epilogue: Immaterial Conditions Matter for Sustainable Development
CONTENTS:
FRANCESCO BESTAGNO - LUCA RUBINI, Introduction
SEEMA SAPRA, Sustainable Development and the Role of the Indian Supreme Court
ZHIXIONG HUANG, The Right to Development: The Chinese Perspective
GIUSEPPE GABUSI, From the Roaring Nineties’ to the Doha Stalemate: China’s Development within the WTO Negotiation Framework
CELINE TAN, Financing for Sustainable Development: The Challenges Ahead for Asian Economies
STEFANO INAMA, Is South-South Regionalism in South-East Asia Really Liberalizing Trade? The Implementation of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area
SIMONA BERETTA, Epilogue: Immaterial Conditions Matter for Sustainable Development
Biografia dell'autore
Contributors: Simona Beretta (UCSC, Milan,
Italy), Francesco Bestagno (UCSC, Milan,
Italy), Giuseppe Gabusi (University of Turin,
Italy), Zhixiong Huang (Wuhan University,
China), Stefano Inama (UNCTAD, Geneva),
Luca Rubini (University of Birmingham, UK),
Seema Sapra (Supreme Court lawyer, New
Delhi, India), Celine Tan (University of
Birmingham, UK).
