The process of providing the conditions that offer opportunities for improving the quality of human life in a community. Development normally covers three aspects of change. 1. It tries to raise people's living standards, including improvements in food, housing, education, employment, sanitation, environmental protection, and health services. 2. It tries to create conditions that can increase growth in self-esteem through improving or introducing social, political, and economic systems and institutions that promote human dignity and respect. 3. It tries to increase people's freedom to choose by increasing the range of available goods and services, travel, and social and political contact and by decentralizing government decision-making, to achieve greater local participation.