Improving development model

Providing models of socio-economic development

Description

Improving development model involves systematically refining frameworks for economic, social, and environmental progress to better address local and global challenges. This strategy prioritizes adapting policies, resource allocation, and implementation methods to ensure inclusivity, sustainability, and resilience. By identifying shortcomings in existing models—such as inequality, inefficiency, or environmental harm—it enables targeted interventions, stakeholder engagement, and continuous evaluation, thereby fostering more effective, equitable, and context-sensitive development outcomes.

Claim

The terms "developed countries" and "less developed countries" or "underdeveloped countries" are used in economic development literature more or less synonymously with the terms "North" and "South". However, implicit in the terms "developed" and "developing" is the assumption that "developed" countries look like countries such as Germany, Japan and the United States, and that through "development" all of the world can and should be made to look like "developed" countries. Since the sustainability of the western development model is being questioned increasingly, words are needed which facilitate rethinking the goals of "development" for all nations, including the so-called "developed" countries. The terms "North" and "South", while themselves having many limitations, do not perpetuate an assumption that the western model is the obvious choice for the future.

Existing models of development run counter to ecological and biological imperatives, placing an overemphasis on growth as the solution to development, and resulting in considerable cultural wastage.