Question

what are the different developmental goals

Answer 1

Different persons can have different developmental goals. What may be development for one may not be development for the other. It may even be destructive for the other. For example; a dam may be developmental goal for an industrialist, but the same dam can create havoc with the life of people who need to be evacuated in the catchment area.

Different people have different developmental needs. These needs are based on their particular life situations. For example; for a person in a remote village, access to an all weather road can be the developmental goal. On the other hand, for a person living in Delhi or Mumbai; construction of a rapid mass transit system may be the developmental goal.

Answer 2

1. For measuring the development World Bank used National income and per capita income of that country.
2. U.N.D.P. used health and education indicators along with income as measure of development.
3. Other that should be considered as measures for human developmental index are 1) life expectancy, 2) general health level l, 3) literacy rate, 4) education.