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Explain the welfare approach to human development.

• A welfare approach is an important approach to looking at the concept of human development.


• This approach looks at humans as the target of all the development activities.


• It plays a huge emphasis on increased government expenditure in the field of education, health, and social secondary amenities.


• People are to be considered only as passive recipients and not the actual participate in the process of development.


• It is, in fact, the government who is responsible to increase the level of human development by increasing its expenditure on welfare.


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