Question

With specific examples from Ghana explain why a strictly economic definition of development is inadequate in the view of scholars like Amartya Seen and Dudley Seers

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Dudley Seers (1969) suggested that development is when a country experiences a reduction or elimination of poverty, inequality and unemployment. Edgar Owens (1987) suggested that development is when there is development of people (human development) and not development of things.What are we Trying to Measure? By Dudley Seers* SUMMARY. Development means creating the conditions for the realization of human personality. Its evaluation must therefore take into account three linked economic criteria: whether there has been a reduction in (i) poverty; (ii) unemployment; (iii) inequality.