Sometimes, we use the term 'growth' as a number and sometimes as an abstraction, but the underlying implication is always that, if the country grows at a certain rate, at the end there will be a pot of gold for everyone.
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Economic growth creates jobs, and countries grow when they educate their people and pursue policies that encourage households to save, existing businesses to invest, and entrepreneurs to innovate and create new markets.
People have been convinced that growth for growth's sake is a good thing.
A country's economic growth may be defined as a long-term rise in capacity to supply increasingly diverse economic goods to its population, this growing capacity based on advancing technology and the institutional and ideological adjustments that it demands.
It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
I believe growth should be constant, sustained and inclusive. It's only meaningful if these three things are there. Otherwise they're just economic figures.
We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how it affects the lives of people, the future of our country.
Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.
Growth is a stupid goal. So, by the way, is no-growth.