Is Growth Incomplete without Social Progress?

Meaningful social progress necessarily includes substantial economic growth.

The main challenge was reconciling economic growth with social progress.

Industrial growth will be a key component of progress in Africa.

There must be growth with equity for social progress and integration.

A new global growth strategy is needed to maintain global economic progress.

Have poverty reduction and human development kept up with income growth? Is growth incomplete without social progress and gender inclusiveness?

Continued progress in these areas will increase the region's resilience and growth potential.

In short, growth rates have completed two cycles (from high to low rates of growth) and a third cycle is currently in progress.

The balance between economic and population growth must be stabilized in the interest of human progress.

18. Perspectives and experiences differ on the relationship between population size and growth and socio economic progress.

Social progress and poverty reduction are impossible over the long term in the absence of economic growth.

Despite some progress, the region continues to struggle with negative productivity growth rates, low productivity employment and underemployment.

Beyond that, integral cooperation is another major pillar for the creation of structures to foster growth and progress.

By enhancing the welfare state s efficiency, economic progress can occur without sacrificing this crucial source of long term growth.

The aggregate growth rate does not capture this inclusiveness, and thus understates the pace of economic and social progress.

It constitutes progress by integrating control of population, environmental protection and economic growth into the approach to population issues.

The progress of industrialization in Africa has broadly mirrored the pattern of GDP growth described above Africa apos s manufacture value added growth was on average only 0.8 per cent.

We must therefore make progress in harmonizing financial, technological and production policies in order to achieve growth at all levels.

Today's debates about growth in Europe are full of buzz words like knowledge based society, technological progress, and investment in education.

It also carries strong complementarities with other elements in the growth process, such as technological progress, skills acquisition and institutional deepening.

Economic progress and human well being in many parts of the world are threatened by unchecked population growth and environmental deterioration.

Progress towards sustainable population growth must spring from actions taken by individuals and groups of people in society at every level.

The country's macroeconomic policy would determine the criteria for wage growth, adjusted for inflation, to keep pace with growth in labour productivity in order to ensure that households genuinely benefited from economic progress.

We conceive of economic growth as growth with equity, without degrading natural resources, but at the same time capable of generating genuine opportunities for progress for the most vulnerable population groups in Central America.

141. In that context, he noted that, notwithstanding its spectacular progress, the country still faced obstacles for the achievement of sustainable, balanced growth.

There had been excellent performance in some countries and encouraging progress in others, but in many other countries growth had been extremely poor.

According to recent research, however, about one third of growth in China now comes from technological progress, or an increase in total factor productivity.

But recent research suggests that about one third of China s economic growth comes from technological progress, or from the increase in total factor productivity.

Development and economic growth and vital progress in information and telecommunications technology are the common aspiration and goal of all countries, especially developing countries.

Emphasizes that progress in the implementation of the New Partnership depends also on a favourable national and international environment for Africa's growth and development

In several of these countries, rapid population growth, social imbalances and drug trafficking are, however, still a considerable handicap in the march towards progress.

We must now make progress in the harmonization of financial, technological and production policies within the world economy in order to achieve generalized growth.

History and reality showed that economic growth was the core of the development concept as well as the foundation for progress in other fields.

Each one of these drivers has a different effect on growth. While technological progress clearly fosters growth, the rise of finance since the 1990s has probably had an adverse effect, via financial crises and the accumulation of debt.

Both reports highlight the progress made so far towards realizing Africa's aspirations to eradicating poverty and attaining sustained economic growth, sustainable development and durable peace.

There are even country experiences where progress has been made in achieving economic growth and overall poverty reduction, but where income distribution has nonetheless worsened.

It is the paramount task of the Government to achieve economic growth and social progress in promoting the economic and social lives of the people.

Progress in the other aspects of development discussed in this report, peace, the environment, society and democracy, will have a positive effect on economic growth.

Countries that had already made considerable progress in the industrial field, such as Botswana, Mauritius and Tunisia, have continued to exhibit strong positive growth rates.

20. The combination of high population growth, low levels of socio economic development and slow technological progress has become a major preoccupation among developing countries.

45. Economic growth must be accompanied by social development as a catalyst for progress, and Pakistan had launched an ambitious 10 year plan of action.

The Quartet recognizes that economic development and progress on security go hand in hand as security reforms and the re establishment of the rule of law are necessary to create an enabling environment for economic growth and political progress.

The region s continued economic growth and progress require that we Asians contain our rivalries and avoid the arms buildups that, unfortunately, now seem to be underway.

Experience had demonstrated that unless the developing countries also experienced growth, progress in the industrialized countries would prove precarious and political and social unrest were likely.