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SELECT CONCEPTS ON DEVELOPMENT

 

        MEANING OF ECONOMIC GROWTH

  annual increase in output typically measured through the gross national product and gross domestic product or their per capita measures

    MEANING OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

·        advancement in the capacity of the economy to have sustained growth over time

·        usually interpreted by mainstream economists in terms of economic restructuring which for them consist in economic liberalization, trade liberalization, deregulation, privatization, and removal of institutional and other constrainst in the operation of a free market

·        other economists, however, would interpret economic development in terms of industrialization

·        indicators are oftentimes used or devised for assess economic development

MEANING OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

·        meeting the needs of the present without sacrificing the capacity of future generations to meet its own needs

·        development in which the development vector d does not decrease over time

 

 

REFERENCE: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE THIRD WORLD, latest edition, Edition by Michael Todaro (most the above is a  reformulated version by Prof. Art Bouqiren, UP Baguio 17 November 2003). The definition of sustainable development, however,  is from a United Nations assembly in 1983.

 

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