What is development?

• What is development a measure of?

  How rich or poor a country is
• What does economic development refer to?

  Wealth and standard of living of a country
• What are the components of economic development?

  Average income and type of employment
• What does social development measure?

  Access to services and well-being of people
• What is environmental development concerned with?

  Quality of the built and natural environment
• What does political development refer to?

  Stability of government and citizens' rights
• What are the four types of development discussed?

  • Economic development
  • Social development
  • Environmental development
  • Political development