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TASK 1 : If you were about to redefine development administration, how it would be?what ratinal of the definition?

Answer: Development administration is a field and sub-field under public administration. it is neither a system and action. the government itself will manage, administer and control the process of administration in a nation. the governemnt will elect the programs and projects that suitable for the people to develop the country. every field has its own obstacle including in the field of development administration. its major obstacle is the development itself.

TASK 2 : a)Why do we need development?

Answer: We do need the development to measure our economic development. the indicators for the economic development are the Gross National Product (GNP) and Gross Domestic Product (GDP). We need to measure the economic development because we can reduce poverty in the country. Besides, we need to develop the society. As we know the society is the manpower in the development. the society plays the imprtant role to generate the development. To change the mentality of the society, one of the tools to use is the education. With education, society will think further and out of box. Another reason why do we need development is involving the political development. In political development, we need the political participation. Political participation is those things that makes people participate. The society has the right to voice up their minds and people aware of the things happen surrounding them in the means of the political development.

TASK 2 : b) What are the significance of administration in development?

Answer : The significance of administration in development is to supervise the plan and policy of the development. The development need administration in order to implement the development program and activities successfully. For example, in Malaysia, we do have central agency which is a mechanism or tools to supervise the development. Under this central agency, one of the mechanism is the ICU (Implementation Coodination Unit). Hence, the function of this unit s to synchronize and implement the development policy.
Besides, the administration is important to ensure the development run smoothly. This is because the development program being controlled and managed by the administration. The good administration are able to control and administer each part of the development process. For example, Putrajaya which shows the successful of development administration.

TASK 2 : c) What are the differences between:

i - Developed Nations
Developed nations is advanced countries. They achieve high level on industrial and High Human Development Index. Examples, for the countries are U.S.A., JAPAN, RUSSIA, FRANCE,KOREA.

ii- Developing Nations
Developing Nations is the countries are not reached the standard of developed countries. They have sources but not reached the standard to become developed country. Examples are Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand.

iii- Least Developed Nations
Least Developed Nations is the third world countries. The nations are not reaching its maturity. They have the sources but they do not use tem to the fullest for their socio-economics. This category is lacking of job opportunity and health care, etc. Examples are Afrika, Bangladesh and Myanmar.

iv- Under Developed Nations
Under Developed Nations also known as the forth world countries. They have the lowest indicators of socio-economics developement. They also have the lowest Human Developmet
Index, low income and weakness of human resources. The economy for these countries are vulnerabelity. Examples are Samoa and Bostwana.

TASK 3 : Find out the relevancy of Development Administration to:

a) Human and Social Dimension of Development: Biologically, Human Developmet is the process of growing to maturity. It involve physically and mentally. In physically, it effects starting from since we were little to present day. We can see the development to our bodies. In mentally, it involve how we carry out ourselves in public, we manage to become open minded, think widely and solve some problems. Social development is the social changes in society. Social dimension of social and its recognition of the positive and negative outcomes that social can generate positively from the knowledge, welfare, etc and negatively from the bad influence. How we can relates to the development administration is without the society participates in any kind of programs plan by government, it is impossible to generate the development. For example, cooperation between people and government.

b)Economic Development : Economic development is the development of economic wealth of countries or regions for the well being of their in habitants. It is the efforts that seek to improve the economic well being and quality of life for country by creating jobs and supporting or growing incomes and tax based. Economic development is different from the economic growth. How it can relates to the development administration is by having the development in the economy, the development administration can run smoothly with reducing the poverty by giving and offering job opportunity to the society. By doing this, more output can be produced and increse the economy of the country. For example, the yearly Budget in Malaysia.

c)Political Development : Political development is the society aware of the things and actions taken by the politician and the government. In political development, it must have the participation from the political. It means that the political participation are those thing that will make people interested to participate. It has the empowerment to make things happen. It relates to the development administration by the leadership of the country. It is about how to choose the correct leader to rule and formulate the programs or activities to the development of the country. It will effects the stability of the country. For example, the politics in Malaysia where there are General Election.

d)Public Administration Development (Reinventing Public Sector) : Reinventing public sector in public adminstration development is to create and give a new fresh look or system to make it easier and comfortable to the public. The needs of this reinventing are it will improve and produce the high level and skill of services in the public sector. Besides, by reinventing public sector, they will become more effective and efficient in doing their works. How it relates to the development administration is by reinventing public sector from lower level to the higher level, it will improve the services and the society will feel satisfy and automatically, it will generate the development of the country because the participation form the society. For example,Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara, they improve their quality of services.

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