The Development Paradigm: Sustainable Human Development

Yıl 1982, Sayı: 21, 67 - 72, 01.05.1982

Edmund J. Cain

https://doi.org/10.1501/Intrel_0000000163

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The Development Paradigm: Sustainable Human Development

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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

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The Development, Paradigm, Sustainable