The Development Paradigm: Sustainable Human Development

Authors : Edmund J. Cain

Pages : 67-72

Doi:10.1501/Intrel_0000000163

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Publication Date : 1982-05-01

Article Type : Research

Abstract :We live in a vvorld vvhere nations break up under the tidal flow of refugees from environmental and social disasters. A vvorld where people seeking opportunities once offered by unexplored frontiers novv encounter fences. A vvorld in vvhich individuals, groups of individuals, communities and nations are becoming increasingly frustrated and intolerant of each other as resources become more scarce and dreams for a better future become more elusive. We live in a vvorld vvhich adds almost 100 million people a year to its already overstressed ecosystem. A vvorld where people are moving to overburdened cities and unvvelcoming countries in pursuit of opportunities they cannot fınd at home. As Paul Kennedy has vvamed "vve are heading into the tvventy-first century in a vvorld consisting for the most part of a relatively small number of rich, satiated, demographically stagnant societies and a large number of poverty stricken, resource depleted nations vvhose populations are doubling every tvventy-five years or less".1 There are those vvho will argue that the simple solution to eliminating these disparities lies in the increasing liberalization of the global economy. As more and more economies open up to a borderless vvorld, it is said that the prospects for humankind — at least for those able to adapt — are steadily improving. This is hopefully true, but the kinds of solutions that a more competitive and borderless global economy may spavvn vvill need to keep ahead of the ever increasing problems vve are vvitnessing among the fast grovving, adolescent, resource poor, undercapitalized and undereducated populations of our vvorld
Keywords : The Development, Paradigm, Sustainable