Priyamvada Ashok MhaddalkarAIR 13 · CSE 2021 · 148 wordsTheir whole copy
Opening · a definition
Development is a value-laden concept of social change which brings about alterations in social structures and relations in a particular direction.
Body · points
→ Usually development is associated with growth, progress or evolution and is used in two ways:
a) Growth of human knowledge b) Growth of human control over nature.
→ Marxists argue that this is nothing but imposition of western concepts of modernisation on the developing world.
→ The prevalent ideas of development have excessive focus on the economic aspect while cultural aspects are neglected.
→ Amartya Sen explains that development goes hand-in-hand with freedom where each individual has the potential to explore his capabilities to the fullest.
→ Latin American scholars like Raul Prebisch and Andre Gunder Frank explained the concept of development of underdevelopment brought about by the capitalist world system.
Close · a summary
Thus, development is a value laden concept often equated with growth in an economic sense.