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Development words

Some common words used in development studies

Nouns

account
accountability
accounting
advocate
agenda
aid
anthropologist
anthropology
approach
aspect
asset
assistance
assumption
benefit
biodiversity
capability
change
characteristic
commitment
compliance
concern
consequence
consideration
consumption
context
cooperation
coordination
critique
crop
definition
degradation
development
dimension
discipline
diversity
donor
drought
ecology
economics
economist
economy
ecosystem
effectiveness
emphasis
environment
equality
estimate
ethnography
evaluation
expectancy
factor
famine
farmer
fertility
focus
framework
functioning
gender
geographer
geography
globalization
governance
growth
guideline
human
hunger
impact
implementation
index
indicator
individual
inequality
initiative
insecurity
institution
intervention
issue
mean
measure
measurement
methodology
monitoring
mortalit
nation
need
norm
notion
objective
obligation
organization
outcome
participant
participation
perspective
policy
pollution
poverty
principle
priority
procedure
productivity
progress
proportion
provision
recipient
reduction
relation
requirement
researcher
resource
right
sector
security
stakeholder
standard
strategy
sustainability
threshold
topic
trend
urbanization
well-being
worker

Verbs

address
administer
adopt
affect
aim
approach
argue
assess
associate
base
calculate
classify
compare
concern
criticize
define
emerge
emphasize
estimate
examine
focus
highlight
implement
integrate
involve
measure
propose
publish
relate
undertake

Adjectives

agricultural
appropriate
broad
concerned
corporate
cultural
developed
developing
domestic
ecological
economic
effective
environmental
essential
extreme
financial
global
growing
human
humanitarian
increasing
institutional
key
long-term
natural
necessary
poor
relevant
social
sustainable

Adjective/noun + noun

aid agency
aid effectiveness
best practice
civil society
climate change
developed country
developed nation
developing country
developing nation
developing world
development aid
development assistance
development communication
development issue
development policy
development programme
development project
development strategy
development theory
donor country
economic development
economic growth
environmental accounting
environmental degradation
environmental governance
environmental impact
environmental issue
environmental law
environmental management
environmental policy
environmental problem
environmental protection
extreme poverty
fertility rate
financial assistance
food aid
food security
foreign aid
fossil fuel
fragile state
gender equality
government agency
growth rate
health care
human being
human development
human geography
human right
human security
humanitarian intervention
indigenous people
international aid
international community
international development
international law
international organization
life expectancy
living standard
mortality rate
natural capital
natural environment
natural resource
nongovernmental organization
political ecology
poor country
population growth
poverty line
poverty rate
poverty reduction
private sector
public health
recipient country
rural area
social anthropology
social justice
socioeconomic development
sustainable development
technical assistance