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In other words, only a little goes to a lot of people, and a lot goes to only
a few. Meanwhile, the number of people living in poverty keeps growing.
To summarize, we could say that our countries have adopted a type of
development model that is generally more concerned with economic
growth (which is the main point of an economic model) and only minimally
concerned with the social distribution of the wealth that is produced
(which is the idea of a social model), and insufficiently concerned with
protecting the environment (which is at the heart of a sustainable model).
2. Sustainable human development
In the early 1990s, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) proposed
a new concept of development and a strategy for achieving it.
It is called “sustainable human development,” which is essentially based
on the ideas of previous development theories. It embraces, on the one
hand, the concept of “sustainable development,” and on the other hand,
“human scale development,” but with the latter carried out on a more
collective level.
Sustainable development responds to the concern that natural resources
can be used up, and if we are not careful about their use today, we will
complicate the lives of future generations. The UNDP combined this conception
with the idea that the main beneficiaries of development are human
beings. Thus, this model argues that improving individual conditions
in all areas should be the foundation for social development.
Sustainable human development asserts that development signifies progress
for individuals and for societies in five fundamental spheres: economic,
social, cultural, political-participatory, and environmental.
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