Core Values of Development

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Core Values of Development
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• development is both physical reality and a state
  of mind.
• in general, development means to have a better
  and more humane life.
• such statement must be reevaluated from time to
  time to determine what better and more means.
• such answer for developing nations today is not
  necessarily the same as it would have been in
  previous decades.

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• three basic components or core values serve as a
  conceptual basis and guideline for understanding
  the inner meaning of development.
• these are common goals sought by all individuals
  and societies
• they relate to fundamental human needs

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Sustenance The Ability to Meet Basic Needs

• sustaining basic human needs food, health, and
  protection.
• if any is absent or in short supply a condition
  of absolute underdevelopment exists.
• a basic function of all economic activity to
  provide as many people as possible with the means
  of overcoming the helplessness and misery arising
  fro such shortness.

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• without sustained and contiguous economic
  progress at the individual and societal level,
  the realization of the human potential would not
  be possible.
• rising per capita incomes, the elimination of
  absolute poverty, grater employment
  opportunities, and lessening income inequalities
  are necessary but not sufficient conditions
  for development.

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Self-Esteem To Be a Person

• a sense of worth and self-respect
• societys values differs across countries
• worthiness and esteem in developed vs.
  undeveloped

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Freedom from Servitude To Be Able to Choose

• the advantage of economic growth is not that
  wealth increases happiness, but it increases the
  range of human choices

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the 3 objectives of development

• development is both physical reality and a state
  of mind in which society has (through some
  combination of social, economic, and
  institutional process), secured the means for
  obtaining better life.

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1. to increase the availability and widen the
   distribution of basic life-sustaining goods
   (food, shelter, and protection)
2. to rise levels of living (higher income, more
   jobs, better education, greater attention to
   culture and human values...)
3. to expand the range of economic and social choices