Communication for development

What is development?

Increase agricultural and industrial production and increase per capita income

Better For the betterment of the existing situation

An indicator of positive growth in per capita income, national income and economic welfare

Development The word "development" in English means "unfolding" and "growth".

Development definitions

(1) Development is the reduction or elimination of poverty, inequality and unemployment in a country. (Dudley Sears) 1969

(2) Development is human development (human development), not polar development (Edgar Owens 1987)

(3) Development is 'complete social development' which includes mental, spiritual and material needs. (Mahatma Gandhi)

Historical evidence shows that every country is focused on national development. Physical and human development plays a key role in this. Of these, human development is the most important because it depends on physical development. The development of states is not uniform. It is sometimes seen as growth and sometimes as degeneration. In human history, wars have been the main cause of this kind of development failure. As a result, the physical and human resources of a state or states and human culture have been destroyed. Approximately during World War I and World War II, the world experienced similar conditions of decline.

The concept of development gradually developed after the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century. Accordingly, increasing agricultural and industrial production and increasing per capita income is defined as development. The term used by economists and politicians of the twentieth century as economic growth and development has been interpreted as indicators of per capita income, national income and positive growth of economic well-being.

The following is the classification of the world community into three main categories until the 1990s.

1. The "First World" included countries in line with bourgeois-democratic ideology. Countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Eastern Europe were in the lead. These countries had a trade economy with gross domestic product (GDP)

2. The "Second World" included countries that were in line with the communist ideology of the Soviet Union, such as the United Soviet Socialist Republic, China, and Cuba. These countries had economies with a moderately planned GDP and a well-developed industrial structure.

3 .The “Third World” included countries that did not belong to these two camps. Namely, Africa, countries in the Indian subcontinent such as East Asia and Saudi Arabia. These countries inherited GDPs of varying political status and economies with a low level and non-industrial structure.