t of Underdevelopment," In C. K. Wilber, (Ed.), The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment, 3rd ed. (New York: Random House, 1989), 103 113.
activities in a society. It is, thus, more profitable to analyze the process of development as a system of interrelated activities, as opposed to a piecemeal analysis of the components of the development, for the process of development, as is true of a functioning system, is an integral part of the society within which it occurs.
Models of development must be just that models. They may provide a general framework within which the development process within a specific country may be understood. Further, a political/economic system is expected to change over time, because the environments in which people live change over time.
Models of development may also be process in character. The crises model mentioned above is a process model that includes development areas with which every political/economic system must deal, and processes of development which must be addressed by every political/economic system with respect to each of the development areas, or crises.
The processes of development, or components, which must be addressed within each of the crisis areas are (1) equality, (2) capacity, and (3) differentiation. Placed together, the five crises mentioned above and three components form a development syndrome matrix, or model, that may be employed in the analysis
2I. Adelman, and C. T. Morris, Economic Growth and Social Equity in Developing Countries, 3rd ed. (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1986), 22.
3K. Griffin, "Underdevelopment in Theory," In C. K. Wilber, (Ed.), The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment, 3rd ed. (New York: Random House, 1989), 23 33.
and evaluation of the process of development experienced by specific societies.
There exist interrelationships between each of the five crises and, within each of...