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PA 205 What Is Development

Development is a process that creates growth, progress, and positive social and economic change for populations in a sustainable way. The purpose of development is to improve quality of life by increasing income and employment opportunities without harming the environment. Over time, development has been defined in different ways such as increasing people's capabilities, empowering women, and addressing poverty traps that prevent growth. Sustainable development aims to raise living standards today while preserving resources for future generations.

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PA 205 What Is Development

Development is a process that creates growth, progress, and positive social and economic change for populations in a sustainable way. The purpose of development is to improve quality of life by increasing income and employment opportunities without harming the environment. Over time, development has been defined in different ways such as increasing people's capabilities, empowering women, and addressing poverty traps that prevent growth. Sustainable development aims to raise living standards today while preserving resources for future generations.

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What is Development?

Development is a process that creates growth, progress,


positive change or the addition of physical, economic,
environmental, social, and demographic components. 
The purpose of development is a rise in the level and
quality of life of the population, and the creation or expansion
of local regional income and employment opportunities,
without damaging the resources of the environment. 
Development is visible and useful, not necessarily
immediately, and includes an aspect of quality change and the
creation of conditions for a continuation of that change.
The international agenda began to focus on development
beginning in the second half of the twentieth century. 
An understanding developed that economic growth did not
necessarily lead to a rise in the level and quality of life for
populations all over the world;  there was a need to place an
emphasis on specific policies that would channel resources and
enable social and economic mobility for various layers of the
population.
Through the years, professionals and various researchers
developed a number of definitions and emphases for the term
“development.” Amartya Sen, for example, developed the
“capability approach,” which defined development as a tool
enabling people to reach the highest level of their ability, through
granting freedom of action, i.e., freedom of economic, social and
family actions, etc.  This approach became a basis for the
measurement of development by the HDI (Human Development
Index), which was developed by the UN Development Program
(UNDP) in 1990.  Martha Nussbaum developed the abilities
approach in the field of gender and emphasized the
empowerment of women as a development tool.
In contrast, professionals like Jeffrey Sachs and Paul Collier
focused on mechanisms that prevent or oppress development in
various countries, and cause them to linger in abject poverty for
dozens of years.  These are the various poverty traps, including
civil wars, natural resources and poverty itself.  The identification
of these traps enables relating to political – economic – social
conditions in a country in an attempt to advance development. 
One of the emphases in the work of Jeffrey Sacks is the
promotion of sustainable development, which believes in growth
and development in order to raise the standard of living for
citizens of the world today, through relating to the needs of
environmental resources and the coming generations of the
citizens of the world.

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