By Uri Marantz
Development is a big word. It denotes theories, concepts, experiences and case studies, and it connotes much more all at once. Internationally, development refers to improving the material conditions and quality of life of the most marginalized communities living under some of the poorest and least capable governments. Naturally, it is the economically more prosperous countries of the “developed” world seeking to bring about these improvements in the “developing” countries with direct cash transfers, debt relief, export subsidies, food aid, medical and humanitarian assistance, multipurpose grants, and other methods. To achieve all this, these countries set aside percentages of their gross national income (GNI) for official development assistance (ODA), which they then disburse to what they consider the neediest countries with the most desperate populations.
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