Abstract:
This paper is primarily focused on the idea of development and the changing concept of
development over time. This paper is based on the findings of various researches and
scientific papers focused on the study of western concept of development and analysis of
various development theories and institutions that evolved over time. The study focuses the
development as multi-dimensional process in reorganization and reorientation of entire
economic as well as social system. Various propositions about the conceptualizations of
development are discussed and primarily development as a dominant discourse of western
modernity has been elaborately explored. The domination of western concept flourished in
the post war period all over the world through different institutional apparatus and financial
institutions in order to channel material aid and the ideology associated with development to
these countries. This western concept has also been criticized as the continuation of the
colonial domination in the name of development.
