national development

Nation's forward progress

National development is the broad process by which a country improves its economic, social, and political conditions.

The term encompasses infrastructure projects, education systems, healthcare access, and institution-building—anything that advances a nation's prosperity and stability.

The oil revenues were earmarked for national development.

Government planning documents often invoke national development as justification for policy priorities.

Opposites
geographic scale

national developmentcommunity development

Organized local betterment efforts

neighborhood improvement · global development · international development

direction of change

national developmenteconomic collapse

Catastrophic failure of finances

underdevelopment · failed state · deindustrialization

planning orientation

national developmentlaissez-faire

Noninterference in commerce

Family

national, development, nation, nations, nationalist, nationalism, nationalize, nationalized, nationalizing

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Rated G