Understanding development: changing concept and impact on developing countries

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.