tradition economic measures
in strictly economic term, development has traditionally meant achieving sustained rates of growth of income per capita to enable a nation to expand its output at a rate faster than the growth rate of its population. levels and rates of growth of"real" per capita gross national income(GNI) (monetary growth of GNI per capita minus the rate of inflation) are then used to measure the overall economic well-being of a population--how much of real goods and services is available to the average citizen for consumption and investment.
economic development in the past has also been typically seen in terms of the planned alteration of the structure of production and employment so that agriculture's share of both declines and that of the manufacturing and service industries increase. development strategies have therefore usually focused on rapid industrialisation, often at the expense of agriculture and rural development.