ABSTRACT
Development is a process of economic, political, and social transformation through which the rise in the population's standard of living tends to become automatic and autonomous. The general rule is that the dominant characteristic of development is the process of economic transformation, and the major result is an improvement in the standard of living of the people in the place where it has occurred. In order for a real development to occur, the improvement in the standard of living must move toward becoming automatic, autonomous, and necessary. Development starts when the dual system of gentlemen and servants begins to give way to a pluralistic society, and when political power ceases to be the privilege of a clearly defined oligarchy and becomes continually more diffuse. Developmental transformations are always interdependent; onr factor in Brazil's economic transformation was industrial development, which today involves heavy industry and equipment manufacture.
