Basic Human Needs
Economist, Manfred Max-Neef, responding to the reality that economic growth oriented development strategies were leaving too many people in a range of "poverties," outlined an alternative view of what constitutes development that includes nine "basic needs" that are manifest in 36 measurable attributes of development. Max-Neef argued that failure to meet any of the needs could result in pathologies that he referred to as forms of "poverty," which could jeopardize social harmony and, therefore, true development.
