What does it take for a less developed country to attain the status "Developed Country?"?

Question

Current developed countries have for centuaries gone through various stages; from gatherers to agrculture to steam engine power to mass production factories up to current technology etc. We are seeing less developed countries taking taking long strides, acquiring current technology for example, which took long periods for developed nations to reach. Are these big leaps helpful to LDCs in achieving 'developed country' status when they have not done fisrt things first?

Answer 1

More than likely not. The government has to be behind it our it's not going to work. Corruption in govenments accross the globe are the main reason for set backs.

Answer 2

No matter how you look at it, if you are speaking in global terms, then development is relative... a comparison between countries. Even if an LDC is advancing on its own terms, that doesn't mean the MDCs aren't developing even faster. So, attaining the status of an MDC means attaining relative equality with the others in terms of the basic indicators. Very few LDCs have achieved this, most of them are in East Asia.

But what your question comes down to is the basic theory of how to define development. This idea you describe of various specific stages, progressing one after the other, always in more or less the same logical order--this is common to influential thinkers ranging from Marx to Rostow, but nowadays, many theories of development, except the most radically conservative, say that's not how it works.

You point in that direction when you say that LDCs "have not done fisrt things first". What exactly are "first things"? Amartya Sen and others say that democracy, health, education, and economic growth all have to come together; you can't just focus on industrialization and forget the rest. Many practitioners at the UN, NGOs, etc. have all come to emphasize the idea of "sustainable livelihoods", in which rather then forcing the rural poor into an urban, industrial lifestyle, you figure out how to improve there lives within their existing economic situation. Further to the left, you have dependency theories such as the world-systems approach which says development is not a local issue of organizing production and using more advancing technology--it is primarily a question of changing power relations and ending exploitation on the international scale.

I think all of these ideas are important parts of the answer to your question, if you want to learn more, check out the sources I have cited.

Answer 3

the basic problems that the under developed country faces are:
1.unemployment
2.corruption
3.racial discrimination

most of the people try to cash in with the available oppurtunities and are least bothered with the society.
since many are suffering from the above mentioned criteria
there is a high tendency of people becoming selfish and working for their own benefit.
if the people of patriotic enough then it would take no time for their country to attin the developed nation status.

***********patriotism is the key for the development of any nation*****************