It's broadly accepted that there's a close relationship between development and access to information. One of the first economists to make the link was Amartya Sen, who won the Nobel Prize in 1998 for his contributions to welfare economics.
Increasingly over the past two decades, the internet has been a major factor affecting the right to development. The United Nations definition of this right is that:
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