what is the ture meaning of development
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You know, development used to be a biological term.. as in 'development of a specie' or 'development of an organ'. It's only when Robert McNamara became president of World Bank and decided that the 3rd world countries are under-developed and need to be developed, that we got this vocabulary of development.
Different people mean different things when they talk about development.
For example:
- when world bank was talking about development, they are generally meaning opening up of 3rd world economies for the exploitation of western business interest.
- when Indian corporate sector talks about development, they generally mean cheap land acquisition, tax soaps, big infrastructure building contracts for their profits.
- when urban (metro) middle class talks about development, they generally mean big and shiny things, tall skyscrapers, multistory flyovers and residential apartments with swimming pools on each floor..
- when slum dwellers talk about development they just want to hold on to that piece of land and praying for some development project not to kick them out.
- when tribal of Chhattisgarh talk about development they mean big mining corporations paying 'salwa judam' for killing them and burning their villages.
So we have to be careful about what we are talking about when we talk about development.
Another absolutely misleading vocabulary was GDP growth. For some time GDP growth was synonymous to 'development' before the financial world of speculators and rating agencies came crashing down in 2008. There was a time before 2008 when no one was talking about development but they were talking about 'growth'. Now that the growth story is collapsed they have move to this new catch word 'development'. Now there are talks of 'development of development' and 'growth of development'. I wrote a small blog post in a much dispassionate manner trying to explain the fallacy -> Fallacy of GDP growth.
I think we need to move beyond these catch phrases and rhetoric and get to the solutions of real issues. We have some really serious issues that India is facing today:
- India has become hunger capital of the world. We have more hungry people than sub-saharan africa. Pakistan and Bangladesh are doing better in global hunger index than us so are 143 other countries.
- Almost half of the children born everyday are born 'stunted/wasted' which means that their brain and body are not fully grown and will never fully grow.
- Approximately 285000 farmers have committed suicide since 1995. That's one farmer killing himself every 30 mins.
- 70% of all farmers don't want their kids to go in farming. If no body wants to farm then what are we going to eat.
- We are facing huge water scarcity at all levels. Be it urban drinking water or water used in agriculture the problem is getting more and more serious everyday. Most of the crop failures are attributed to unavailability of water.
- We have huge rural to urban migrations taking place all across the country. People are either leaving their land or their lands are grabbed and they are compelled to go to city and work as construction laborers. And then the urban rich complain about slums. 60% of Mumbai population lives on 9% of land in slums.
- and many more ....
No so called 'Development' is going to solve these issues. We need specific public policies addressing all these issues and we need nuanced debate on how these issue can be solved.
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Development is a process of improvement and changes required for better living and existence. It is a word exclusively related to human beings than anything that exists in this universe.
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