Abstract
Development is a concept that is being used nowadays with as much caution as modernization was five or six years ago. The unease, or at least public display of sensitivity, that social scientists and policy makers are exhibiting reflects a certain unsureness about the criteria for measuring ameliorative change. It also suggests in some quarters a growing awarenss of the ironies of change-that what was deemed ameliorating now has been shown to be detrimental to the general populace, if not to the elites, of the allegedly developing country. Even observers skeptical of dependency theorists' formulations have come to acknowledge that growing GNP can rise in tandem with a widening gap between a country's rich and poor, that advances in a country's export earnings can lock it ever more tightly into reliance on raw commodity production and that the spread of education can promote distortive consumerism and eventually dependence on foreign bank loans to cover imbalances of payments.
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