The maldéveloppement indicates gaps in the Human development of a country. This term was invented in the Années 1990 to be distinguished from the “Sous-développement”, which considers only the economic aspects , and which in addition supposes a single track implicitly for human progress.

The term “badly-development” was created by analogy with the couple “malnutrition/Mal-nutrition”. The population of the the United States, for example, suffers from malnutrition, but certainly not of malnutrition. The term “underdevelopment” refers to a deficit (quantitative), whereas the term “badly-development” refers to an inadequacy (qualitative).

To badly pose the problem in term of - development thus amounts posing the problem of how to develop, whereas the under - development, from its quantitative direction, insinuates that” not developed enough people “must provide an effort to reach the “same level” of development, i.e. must follow the development model of the country which judges that it “is underdeveloped”. That implicitly amounts considering that the model of the country which considers a country “underdeveloped” is a model of reference, adapted with the context of this country.

However the concept of maldéveloppement does not arrive, with the example of the concept of Sustainable development, to really blame the concept even of development on which it depends.

Roots of maldéveloppement

See the detailed article brakes of the development.

To fight maldéveloppement

The reduction of maldéveloppement is problems to which it is difficult to bring a solution. Some initiatives were taken to fight it:

• the developed countries, as former colonizers for some, can play their part in this combat. Everyone agrees to say that this help cannot be confined in the humane urgency (even if this one seems necessary). The policies of development assistance are laid down by each Sovereign state implementing them, often by the means of the co-operation. Nevertheless, the populations of the developed countries are badly informed on local realities and the development assistance can be ineffective. It is the case of many white elephants.

• the development of tourism is another approach since it at the same time makes it possible to bring back currencies to the host country and to brew the populations of the DEVELOPING COUNTRIES with those of the rich countries.

• the recent initiatives centered on the Equitable trade combine at the same time an evolution of economic environment (in “shorting-circuit” the intermediaries) and a sensitizing of the populations of the countries developed with the conditions under which are produced many goods consumed on their premises. However, the equitable trade remains of modest size because it results less than one dialog between the people that economic opportunities from niches of the actors of the market and " good conscience" Western consumers.

Works of the philosopher and politician Ebenezer Njoh-Mouellé ( Of the mediocrity to excellence , Appointed of the people …) maldéveloppement document in great detail this question of human with the Cameroun and in other African countries.