Current measures of Third World development focus on limited aspects of the development process. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP), a measure of production output, has been used to categorize levels of development and human welfare. The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite measure of three or four indicators. Both measures have been criticized, the GDP, as being too unidimensional, and the HDI as being atheoretical and overly simplistic. The problem is that neither measure gives an indication of the extensive processes which Third World nations must undergo to achieve desired developmental outcomes. / The central aim of this research is to derive a conceptual framework that leads to a set of indicators which maps the process of development for the Commonwealth Caribbean nation of Barbados. I also examine how well that framework and related indicators correspond to major social scientific theoretical frameworks and indicators of development; and I assess the extent to which the process indicators I identify are related to the HDI. / Using indicators suggested by three major social scientific frameworks, and temporally moving correlation and covariance analysis applied to time-series data, I assess the process of development between 1960 and 1990. / I find several variables, representing parts of each of the frameworks, trace correlates of development. I also find the highest internal validity among indicators from the human welfare framework and lowest level of internal validity for indicators from the modernization framework. / I conclude that both input and output indicators are key to the development process. In addition, I show that while the HDI is a limited set of output measures that mark a particular stage of development, there is a wider set of key indicators which maps the development process and consists of both input and output indicators. This synthetic framework and its related indicators are advanced as a model for comprehending the process of development in Barbados, and as a potential model for understanding the developmental process in other countries. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-12, Section: A, page: 4973. / Major Professor: Charles B. Nam. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1995.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77613 |
| Contributors | Daly, Olney Trevelyan., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 260 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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