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Receiving the Headian Legacy: International Lawyers, South-to-North Resource Transfers, and the Challenge of International Development
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 March 2016
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A new factor has recently reemerged: financial transfers from South to North. Reemerged, for it was also a common occurrence in earlier colonial periods.
— Ivan Leigh Head
Written over fifteen years ago by Ivan Leigh Head, a highly distinguished Canadian international lawyer, foreign policy expert, and international development thinker, the words contained in the above quotation point firmly at this great man’s analytic incisiveness and hint at the sheer depth of his fairness of mind. For although the net transfer of resources from the much poorer geopolitical “South” to a far richer “North” remains to this day one of the most important obstacles to international development, rarely have the dominant accounts of international development given this phenomenon the pride of place that it surely deserves. Ivan Head was therefore well ahead of his time in foregrounding, highlighting, and criticizing this very disturbing, yet continuing, feature of South-North relations.
- Type
- Tribute to Ivan L. Head
- Information
- Canadian Yearbook of International Law/Annuaire canadien de droit international , Volume 42 , 2005 , pp. 425 - 436
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- Copyright © The Canadian Council on International Law / Conseil Canadien de Droit International, representing the Board of Editors, Canadian Yearbook of International Law / Comité de Rédaction, Annuaire Canadien de Droit International 2005
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2 I owe this expression to the title of the famous artistic production “The Phantom of the Opera.”
3 See Our Common Interest: Report of the Commission for Africa (London: Commission for Africa, 2005), available at <http://news.bbc.co.uk/i/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/11_03_05africa.pdf (last visited on 16 April 2005) [Blair Commission Report].
4 Ibid, at 54.
5 Ibid.
6 See Head, “South-North Dangers,” supra note 1 at 85.
7 See Canadian International Development Agency, Policy Statement, Canada Making a Difference in the World: A Policy Statement on Strengthening and Effectiveness (September 2005), available at <http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/aideffectiveness> (last visited on 21 March 2005).
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9 See Blair Commission Report, supra note 3 at 32.
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11 See Blair Commission Report, supra note 3 at 24.
12 Ibid, at 41.
13 See Head, “South-North Dangers,” supra note 1 at 79.
14 See Blair Commission Report, supra note 3 at 24.
15 See ibid, at 32.
16 Ibid.
17 See Head, “South-North Dangers,” supra note 1 at 86.
18 See Blair Commission Report, supra note 3 at 48–53.
19 Ibid, at 50.
20 Ibid, at 48.
21 Ibid. at 50.
22 Ibid. at 53.
23 Ibid. at 295.
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