Class 11 Political Science Notes Chapter 10 Development
- The idea of development became a main concern after the industrial revolution. Development refers to the achievement of social and economic progress by transforming conditions of underdevelopment as low productivity, stagnation and poverty.
- Development conveys the ideas of improvement, progress, well being and an aspiration for a better life to articulate a vision for the society as a whole and methods to achieve it.
- Development cannot be understood as only in economic terms but it can place also in social and political terms.
- Development bears the different approaches also like psychological, human needs development, dependency, Gandhian and market-friendly approaches, etc.
- Sustainable development makes the efforts to meet the well being needs of present and future generations.
- Gandhiji viewed development to be different from Western model of development and made a distinction between economic and real development.
- This concept gained importance after the second half of 20th century when many countries from Asia and Africa attained political independence.
- A criticism has taken place that development projects to be proven very costly for developing countries.
- The development pays a high social cost also because displacement has led to many struggles in the countries.
- Development should not be measured only in the terms of materials only but it can also be measured in terms of happiness, harmony and satisfaction of essential needs.
Class 11 Political Science Notes
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