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Broad-based economic growth has always been the most effective pathway to reducing deprivation: over 30 years, China’s economic growth spurt lifted an unprecedented 680 million people above the poverty line.
Fortunately, the region is better positioned for a growth takeoff than it was in the 1990s, owing to major education and infrastructure investments that were made during the last decade of high oil prices.
But to avoid deep cuts to current consumption, any credible growth strategy will have to put structural reforms before even macroeconomic stabilization, lest failure to deliver growth leads to a financial crisis and even deeper consumption cuts in the future.
Most countries had no choice but to cut expenditures and accept a lost decade of anemic growth.
And when growth did return, in the 2000s, it was driven almost entirely by another oil boom.
And these cuts have mostly hit public investment, thus undermining future growth prospects.
More fundamentally, governments in oil-producing countries are confronting a political dilemma: Stronger economic growth, though desirable, requires regimes to take risks that could endanger their very survival.
Similarly, former British Prime Minister David Cameron cited the same research at a 2013 meeting on “Nutrition for Growth,” when G8 governments committed to spending $4.15 billion more on the fight against malnutrition.
But the higher productivity growth and pressures to cut costs that result test a society's cohesion.
But at least one metric offers reason for cautious optimism: economic growth.
The International Monetary Fund estimates that global growth will reach 3.7% this year, up from 3.6% in 2017.
As Christine Lagarde, the Fund’s managing director, put it in a speech in December, “The sun is shining through the clouds and helping most economies generate the strongest growth since the financial crisis.”
For starters, Africa is poised for a modest, if fragmented, growth recovery.
Following three years of weak economic performance, overall growth is expected to accelerate to 3.5% this year, from 2.9% in 2017.
To be sure, growth will be uneven.
This is not an encouraging foundation for addressing the challenge of recession or weak growth in the eurozone’s core economies.
While the EU will not restore trust in all governing institutions overnight, strong action to restore growth, expand opportunity, protect citizens, improve efficiency, and build the economic infrastructure of the future will make it part of the solution, weakening the perception that it is part of the problem.
Estonia and Costa Rica are well-known examples of how information-access strategies can help accelerate output growth and raise income levels.
On the contrary, the technology gap between developed and developing countries, measured by levels of penetration by personal computers and information-technology and communications services, has narrowed markedly over the course of the past decade, with rapid growth in mobile phone and Internet use.
The growth in mobile-telephone technology demonstrates that the digital divide is shifting, and the focus of development efforts must change with it.
That is a big deal in a world where, for the last 20 years, cities have accounted for more than 60% of economic growth, wealth expansion, and gains in living standards.
Monetary union, it was assumed, would foster economic integration, bolstering Europe’s long-term growth.
Instead, intra-eurozone trade and investment have increased only modestly, and growth potential has actually weakened.
On March 24, 2010, what all observers of European affairs have long known will be written in stone: the EU failed to attain the targets for economic growth, efficiency, and modernization set ten years ago in Lisbon.
How can we make countries more competitive, growth more sustainable and inclusive, and genders more equal?
Benchmarking has been moving to the policy arena, including issues such as sustainable development, the business environment, competitiveness, gender parity, and, more recently, inclusive growth.
Two examples of this are the WEF’s Global Competitiveness Index and its new Inclusive Growth and Development Index.
The inclusiveness of growth has to do with the disparities of income and growth across different regions and social groups.
Instead, the indexes include variables – what they refer to as the “policy space” – that are supposed to cause either competitiveness or inclusive growth.
We do not really know what could make growth more inclusive, countries more competitive, and development more sustainable in each country and region; and we should not pretend that we do.
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