Development as Freedom, Liberation and Empowerment

Development is considered as a process of expanding the real freedoms that people enjoy. Growth of GNP or of individual incomes can be very important as means to expanding the freedoms enjoyed by the members of the civilization. But freedoms depend on social and economics arrangements as well as political and civil rights. Similarly, industrialization or technological progress or social modernization can substantially contribute to expanding social sovereignty, but choice depends on other influences as well. The relation between individual freedom and the achievement of social development goes well beyond the constitutive connection-important as it is.

Development requires the removal of major sources of unfreedom. Freedom in central to the process of development. Overcoming these problems is a central part of the exercise of growth. Development of freedom is viewed both as the primary end and as the principal means of development. The removal of substantial unfreedoms is constitutive of development. Although there has been a lot progress in health, education, trade, commerce and communication yet there are many new problems as well as old ones.