Changes that lead to increased human wellbeing ----- a healthy and socially rewarding standard of livinghealthy and socially

rewarding standard of living ------and environmental quality and environmental quality(K. Singh)

Development is a set of desirable societal objectives which does not decrease over time (Pearce et al 1990)

Michael P. Todaro defines development as a multi--dimensional process involving major changes in social structures, popular attitudes, and national institutions, as well as the acceleration of economic growth, the reduction well as the acceleration of economic growth, the reduction of inequality, and the eradication of absolute poverty. Development, in its essence, must represent the whole gamut of change by which an entire social system, tuned to the diverse basic needs and desires of individuals and social groups within that system, moves away from a condition of life widely perceived as unsatisfactory and toward a situation or condition of life regarded as materially and as and spiritually 'better' (1985:85) http://www.scribd.com/doc/47452995/Lecture-1-Understanding-Development

Bryant & White (1987) gave the meaning of development as people capability improvement to influence their future. It means development activity done not only give the possibility to group of people to plan and to do change, but also should able to give opportunity or chance to an individual to do something or to do changes for their future ww.ipdn.ac.id/IMPROVING%20LOCAL%20DEVELOPMENT%20PERFORMANCE%20IN%20SELECTED%20PR OVINCES.pdf

there is no real development when the benefits of technology and progress helped only a small number of people in the developed world, who are already relatively rich.
Seers, D. (1967) The Meaning of Development

http://www.anewmanifesto.org/timeline/dudley-seers-the-meaning-of-development/

Development as Freedom -- Freedom is both the primary end and the principal means of development. Amartya Sens Development as Freedom 1999

http://www.developmenteducationreview.com/issue8-focus1

1863, Abraham Lincoln, (the president of the United States of America who led the war against slavery), defined democracy as government of the people, by the people, for the people.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. Aristotle Politics Book 3 http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/democracy.html#0MMv9RuY2mMGjF6v.99

It is the line that forms on the right. It is the dont in dont shove. It is the hole in the stuffed shirt through which the sawdust slowly trickles; it is the dent in the high hat. Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half the people are right more than half of the time. It is the feeling of privacy in the voting booths, the feeling of communion in the libraries, the feeling of vitality everywhere. Democracy is a letter to the editor. Democracy is the score at the beginning of the ninth. It is an idea which hasnt been disproved yet, a song the words of which have not gone bad. Its the mustard on the hot dog and the cream in the rationed coffee E.B. White (July 3, 1943)

"Modern political democracy is a system of governance in which rulers are held accountable for their actions in the public realm by citizens, acting indirectly through the competition and cooperation of their elected representatives." (Schmitter and Karl 1991, 76)

"Democracy is a competitive political system in which competing leaders and organizations define the alternatives of public policy in such a way that the public can participate in the decision-making process." (Schattschneider 1960, 141) http://www.uiowa.edu/~c030142/DefinitionsOfDemocracy.html