Development, it has been suggested, is the economic component of a wider process: modernisation (Brookfield, 1973; Mabogunje, 1980). Modernisation today is generally accepted to be a change toward economic, social and political systems developed in Western Europe and North America between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, and, since the 1960s, increasingly around the Pacific Rim. In theory, a group of people could develop in a range of ways, but remain unmodernised, or vice versa.