THE HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT AND THE THEORITICAL APPROACH OF DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

Over decades, there are debates about the meaning of development, because of the term of development may mean different things to the different people. However, actually, the terms development was used first time after World War II, when there were political, economic and cultural transformation in most part of the world, which were as fundamental and wide ranging as those proposed by development specialists in the 1950-1960s, but most of the ideas associated with modernisation/development theory had been formulated decades, sometimes centuries earlier.

Development also, is an essential purpose that most of people or nations take for granted. Hoping that the development will result in the changing of political, economic and social institutions.  Economic progress is an essential component, but not the only component. Some theorists viewed that the process of development as a series of successive stages of economic growth through which all countries must pass. Some theorists also critic this argument. However, some theorists also critic the argument of growth as indicators of development.

According to Simone and Feraru : 12, the development involves a broad range of belief, and attitudes that individual must aquire to adjust to the demands placed on them by social and geography mobility, broader political allegiances, economic growth, and technology that requires literacy, openness to new experiences, punctuality and working with people in close proximity and under condition fixed by large organisation rather than landlords and dictates of nature. Moreover, Simone and  Ferraru state that development or modernisation is a term to describe the structural and behavioural changes that a society undergoes in the process of acquiring an industrial system or production and distribution.