GDP Per Capita

development is qualitative variable and thus far broader than any of the variables aimed at describing it. Development is therefore often put in terms of goals such as access to basic necessities such as food, water and shelter, availability of employment, education and culture and having social choices and basic freedoms such as freedom of speech and democratic elections.”[1]. From the definition we can conclude that for a country to be specified as a developing country they must focus on the quality of the life of the citizens in the country. Take for example two countries which are United States Of America(USA) and India. USA for example might have the lower GDP per capita but their government have taken serious effort in increasing the social services for the citizens. In USA there are lots of facilities that eventually have increased the social standard of the citizens. In a simple words, developing country must have a functioning government, shows ample tax revenue and has a social security system.For India, the government has lack of effort in increasing the social life of the citizens and they are most concentrating on a big city and neglecting the other part of the country. The citizens might have the higher GDP per capita but since the social services is at the low standard with inadequate schooling , having scant tax revenue and thus a meagre social welfare system, the country is not included as a developing country. Developing is all about having choices, opportunities and freedom. Citizens in a developing country have a choice such as political choice, the choice of food, choice of place to live and choice on whether they want to do something or not but not in a less developed country(LDC). They also have the opportunities to study, to leisure and so on which is not a common things at the LDC.The same thing goes to freedom. Freedom to speak, freedom to give opinion and freedom from arbitrary governance and random applicability of the law. These are all qualitative variable which determined the rate of development of the country and obviously, they are all parts of social services that is provided by the government of the country. [1]pg. 14,Economics In Terms Of The Good, The Bad and The Economist, McGee