Abstract
"What are the diverse meanings of ?development'? How do they reflect the different interests that are involved? The idea of development was first evoked by former US President Truman in 1949, in the context of dawning cold war opposing western economies to communism, in order to justify the economical and technical assistance that the "developed? countries had to provide to the then considered as "under-developed? countries to help them in catching up with the western societies. In this document I will introduce the habitual theories of development and their consequences before accounting for the new forms of evaluating and reaching development.
