Development Explained
Development or developing may refer to:
Arts
Business
Biology and medicine
- Adult development, between adolescence and the end of life
- Child development, between birth and the end of adolescence
- Development (journal), an academic journal in developmental biology
- Developmental biology, the study of the process by which organisms grow and develop
- Developmental psychology, the scientific study of how and why human beings change over the course of their life
- Drug development, the entire process of bringing a new drug or device to the market
- Embryogenesis, or development, the process by which the embryo is formed
- Human development (biology), the process of growing to maturity
- Neural development, the processes that generate, shape, and reshape the nervous system
- Personal development, or self-help
- Prenatal development, the process in which a human embryo or fetus gestates during pregnancy
- Human tooth development or odontogenesis
- Youth development
Computing
Social science
- Community development, practices to improve various aspects of communities
- Development communication
- Developing country, a nation with a lesser developed industrial base
- Development aid, financial aid given by governments and other agencies
- Development geography, a branch of geography which refers to the standard of living and quality of life of inhabitants
- Development studies, examines socioeconomic growth and development, especially in developing countries, and may overlap with postcolonial studies
- Development theory
- Economic development, the process by which a nation improves the economic, political, and social well-being of its people
- European Development Fund, the main instrument for European Union (EU) aid for development
- Human Development Index, used to rank countries by level of human development
- Human development (behavioral), the science that seeks to understand how and why people of all ages and circumstances change or remain the same over time, see Developmental psychology
- International development, usually level of economic development
- Regional development, aid and assistance to regions which are less economically developed
- Rural development, the process of improving the quality of life and economic well-being of people living in rural areas
- Sociocultural evolution, how cultures and societies have changed over time
- Sustainable development
Other uses
See also