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FREEDOMBy: Isaac Kwaku Adu

GDSJ, St. Johns University

Development can be seen as a process of

expanding the real freedom that people

enjoy. Growth of GNP or of individual incomes

can be a means to expanding the freedoms enjoyed by members of the society.

Industrialization Technological process

Social modernization

Development requires the removal of major sources of unfreedom; poverty as well as tyranny; poor economic opportunities, systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities.

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ARRANGEMENT AS OTHER MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR WHICH BRINGS TOTAL FREEDOM

The ends and means of development Poverty as capacity of deprivation The importance of democracy Women agency and social change Population, food and freedom Social choice and individual behaviour Culture and Human rights

COUNTRY GDP PER CAPITA (2005) German 23,198.80 Austria

26,485.70 Belgium 24,908.00 Spain 20,183.10 Finland 25,013.10 France 23,916.50 Greece 17,480.90 Holand 24,542.60 Ireland 30,025.80 Italy 22,578.50 Luxemburg 47,653.20 Portugal 15,951.70 U K 24,755.60 Switzerland 26,093.00 U. S. A 33,183.20 Japan 23,785.30

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DECISIONS

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