Sizing Up Development: Qualitative Indicators

Three Core Values of Development Economics that serve as standards of development

Sustenance Self-esteem Freedom from Servitude
When any one of these is absent or critically short , a condition of absolute "underdevelopment" exists.

Sizing Up Development: Qualitative Indicators

Three Core Values..

Sustenance
-capacity to meet basic necessities such as food, clothing, and shelter. Lack of even one of these means that a person's life is not progressive A country develops if its citizens have enough or more than enough for their basic necessities, there is growth of income, extreme poverty is addressed, and there is equality among members of society.

Sizing Up Development: Qualitative Indicators

Three Core Values..

Self-esteem -a sense of worth and self-respect- of not being used as a tool by others for their own ends In the Philippines, material wealth is not the only important thing but the love for one's family, the family's reputation, and a person's dignity and self-esteem. A country is developed if this unique need of the people is addressed.

Sizing Up Development: Qualitative Indicators

Three Core Values..

Freedom from Servitude - liberation from oppressive systems in society, poverty and abuse, slavery, ignorance, and the absence of the freedom to choose one's culture or religion "the advantage of economic growth is not that wealth increases happiness, but that it increases the range of human choice."

Sizing Up Development: Qualitative Indicators

Sizing Up Development: Qualitative Indicators

Sizing Up Development: Qualitative Indicators