Humanist View Of Underdevelopment

Development refers to the progress that is made or being made in everything, be it social, economic, political and one’s physical being. Development in Ghana can be classified among one or two categories named above. The actors in development are the government, individuals, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), private companies, household and the like.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), founded on the 2000 Millennium Declaration, itself a document endorsed by nearly every government on Earth, have found their way into almost all the international agreements governing the flow of development aid and support throughout the global system. There are seven of them namely;
Eradicate Extreme Poverty and hunger (Target 1.A: Halve, between

The main proponents of this view of development are Denis Goulet and Michael Todaro. According to Denis Goulet who captured the humanist view in his book ‘The Cruel Choice,’ placed emphasis on the impact of underdevelopment on the human conditions. He emphasized that in order to give an objective account of underdevelopment it requires personally undergoing the shock of underdevelopment. From this perspective it can be deduced that liberation from poverty and a stunted view of self clearly defines development. Michael Todaro also makes an analysis from the humanist view that expanding material benefits is insufficient and in the end dehumanizing by these three core

They are certain needs without which life would be impossible. They include food, shelter, health and protection.
Self-esteem: this entails the ability to be a person. To feel a sense of worth and self-respect and not being used by people to their advantage.
Freedom from servitude: the ability to make choices. The underlying concept here is freedom. Freedom here is not to be understood in the political or ideological sense, but in the more fundamental sense of freedom of emancipation from alienating material conditions of life and, from the social servitudes of men to nature, ignorance, other men, misery, institutions, and dogmatic beliefs. The MDG’s and the SDG’s throw more light on the humanist perspective in several ways since the both have corresponding ideologies.
With respect to the first MDG which state that, eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, it is commensurate with the humanist view in the sense that the general idea about development from the humanist perspective according to ethicist Michael Goulet is to liberate from poverty, and making the efforts to eradicate poverty and hunger can be termed as developing from the humanist perspective. As stated in the target 1B of MDG1, employing people and providing a decent work for them can help in poverty