Truths and Deeds!

What is Development? At the level of the individual, development implies increased skill and capacity, greater freedom, creativity, self-discipline, responsibility and material well-being (Some of these are virtually moral categories and are difficult to evaluate – depending as they do on the age in which one lives, one’s class origins, and one’s personal code of what is right and what is wrong. However, what is indisputable is that the achievement of any of those aspects of personal development is very much tied in with the state of the society as a whole). At the level of social group, therefore, development implies an increasing capacity to regulate both internal and external relationships. Development most often is used in an exclusive economic sense – the justification being that the type of economy is in itself an index of other social features. In talking development generally, the focus is usually on people regardless of language, culture, tradition, gender or status and to wh