- Sustenance: The Ability to Meet Basic Needs
- Self-esteem: To Be a Person
- Freedom from Servitude: To Be Able to Choose
The 3 Objectives of Development (Michael Todaro, 1997)
- Increase the availability and widen the distribution of basic life-sustaining goods (food, shelter, health, and protection)
- Raise levels of living (higher income, more jobs, better education, and greater attention to cultural and humanistic values) = will enhance material well-being; generate greater individual and national self-esteem
- Expand the range of economic and social choices (by freeing them from servitude, dependence, ignorance and human misery)