Bangladesh, May 13 -- Recent focus on corruption and many other malpractices within the socio-economic paradigm has persuaded economists and social scientists to re-visit the challenges being faced in the arena of successful development as envisaged within the goals set forth earlier through the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and now through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Analysts have now come to the general conclusion that the Right to Development is an indivisible and interdependent, interrelated and mutually inclusive individual and collective right, which belongs to all individuals and peoples in all countries without discrimination on any grounds.

However, several meetings held in this regard in the recent past not on...