Development Studies

• In simplest terms, development is defined
  as the "process of change over time."
  Development scholars also define it as
  a "purposeful change in a specific direction."
• economic growth = increasing the size of the "economic pie"
  economic justice = pertains to the equitable division of the "economic pie"
• Countries differ in their rate of development.
  For instance, compare Philippines and Singapore.
• According to Amartya Sen (Nobel Prize in Economics, 1998),
  "development requires the removal
  of major sources of unfreedom:
  -poverty
  -tyranny
  -poor economic opportunities
  -systematic social deprivation
  -neglect of public facilities
  -intolerance or overactivity of repressive states