Since the Senegalese jurist Keba M’baye first advanced it in 1972, the idea of a ”right to development” has been the focus of an extensive but largely theoretical debate. Jurists from the South enumerated the possible subjects and objects of this right while jurists from the North questioned whether it existed at all. However, the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of a Declaration on the Right to Development (DR2D) did helped to resolve the differences and also to narrow the divide although some argue that on the contrary, the artfully vague text of the DR2D attracted new jurisprudential speculations. However,…