In spite of heavy investments, development has failed to alleviate poverty and inequality, achieve environmental sustainability and deliver happiness to humanity. In his revolutionary book, Rohana Ulluwishewa shows that the root-cause of the failure lies within us. It is our self-centeredness and greed for material wealth. Conventional development ignores this truth, and attempts to change almost everything in the external world except ourselves. Of course, the changes it brings to the external world generate more material wealth, but as the selfishness within us remains unchanged, we fail to generate wealth in an environmentally sustainable manner, to distribute the wealth equally and to deliver happiness to all. While all great religions advocate the reduction of our selfishness, modern scientific evidence suggest that it is a temporary sign of our spiritual underdevelopment. As we develop spiritually, it is replaced by selfless love. Then spontaneously emerge a form of development driven by love which can eliminate poverty and inequality, achieve environmental sustainability and deliver happiness to all. This book concludes with policy measures required to promote the new form of development.

Rohana Ulluwishewa was an Associate Professor at the Sri Jayewardenepura University in Sri Lanka. After gaining a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, UK, he completed his PhD at Kyushu University, Japan. In his thirty years of academic carrier he has worked as Senior Lecturer at the University of Brunei, and was Visiting Fellow at Wageningen Agricultural University and Leiden University in the Netherlands, and at Leeds University, UK. He served as a consultant for many national and international development agencies and has published in numerous international journals. He was also an Honorary Research Associate at Massey University in New Zealand, where he currently lives.

List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction
What is this Book About?
Are We Intrinsically Self-Centered and Greedy?
Organization of the Book
PART I: WHAT IS SPIRITUALITY?
1. Contemporary Views on Spirituality
Spirituality and Religion
Spiritual but Not Religious
Spirituality: Scientific Perspectives
2. Spirituality Re-examined
Searching Common Grounds in Different Views
Transforming Mind, Changing Values
3. Spirituality: Development Perspectives
Spirituality in Conventional Development
Spirituality as Establishing Right Relationships
Spirituality as Transformation of the Human Mind
PART II: GLOBAL ECONOMIC SYSTEM FROM SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE
4. Identifying Global Socio-Spiritual Classes
Worldly Happiness and Spiritual Happiness
Basic Needs and Neurotic Needs
Needs and Happiness
Human Values, Human Virtues and Human Vices
Happiness, Needs, Values and Power
Towards a Socio-Spiritual Classification of People
5. Global Economic System as a Product of Greedy Mind
Characteristics of Global Socio-Spiritual Classes
The Giant Fruit Tree in an Isolated Island: An Analogy
Self-Centeredness, Greed and Class Relations
6. Global Economic System and Conventional Development
Origin and characteristics of conventional development
Self-centeredness and greed in conventional development: theory and practice
Spirituality and Conventional Development: Contradictions
PART III: DEVELOPMENT WITHOUT SPIRITUALITY
7. Poverty and Inequality
Two forms of development
Poverty and Inequality in Intentional Development
Poverty and Inequality in Immanent Development
8. Environmental Unsustainability
Self-Centeredness and Unsustainability
Self-Centredness, Private Consumption and Unsustainability
Spirituality as a Guide to Sustainable Consumption
9. Unhappiness
Self-Centeredness, Happiness, and Unhappiness
Development and Unhappiness
If Not Material Wealth, What Makes Us Happy?
Two Kinds of Happiness
PART IV: TOWARDS A SPIRITUALITY-BASED DEVELOPMENT
10. Spiritual Growth and Economic Growth: Conflict or Synergy?
Spiritual Growth
Are Spiritual Growth and Economic Growth Mutually Beneficial?
Spiritual Growth and Optimum Economic Growth
11. Spiritualizing the Global Economic System
Towards a Form of Development Motivated by Love
Is it Already Underway?
Happiness Orientation in Spirituality-Based Development
12. Towards a World of Abundence, Equity, Sustainability and Happiness
First the Problem of Affluence, then the Problem of Poverty
Immusizing the Non-Affluent Against Affluenza
Promoting Selfless Service as Development
Integrating Spirituality into Formal Education
Re-Spiritualizing Religion
Scientific Research on Spirituality
Spiritually Oriented Personal Services
Integrating Spirituality into Development Studies
Is Spirituality-Based Development Possible?
Epilogue: Changing Ourselves to Change the World
References
Endnotes