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The population
growth
in Nigeria, and especially in these areas like Makoko, are painful reminders of how out of control things really are.
If you go back to Imperial Rome in the Year 1 A.D., there was admittedly about 1,800 years where there wasn't an awful lot of
growth.
But then the people that the Romans would have called Scottish barbarians, my ancestors, were actually part of the Industrial Revolution, and in the 19th century,
growth
began to accelerate, and you saw that get quicker and quicker, and it's been impacting everyone.
Education is helping
growth
and investment, and that's giving budget revenues, which is giving governments more money, which is helping
growth
through education.
They assumed two percent, and that made it a pretty hopeless story, because population
growth
was two and a half.
That new cover shows, well, Africa rising, because the
growth
over the last 10 years has been about five and a half percent.
I would like to see if you can all now become economists, because if
growth
for the last 10 years has been five and a half percent, what do you think the IMF is forecasting for the next five years of
growth
in Africa?
This is Indian
growth
from 1960 to 2010.
It grew at two percent when population
growth
was about two and a half.
It wasn't a "Hindu rate of growth," "democracies can't grow."
And if I lay sub-Saharan
growth
on top of the Indian
growth
story, it's remarkably similar.
Twenty years of not much
growth
and a trend line which is actually telling you that sub-Saharan African
growth
is slightly better than India.
Now what I do is I'm an economist, and I actually study the relationship between innovation and economic
growth
at the level of the company, the industry and the nation, and I work with policymakers worldwide, especially in the European Commission, but recently also in interesting places like China, and I can tell you that that question is on the tip of all of their tongues: Where are the European Googles?
What is the secret behind the Silicon Valley
growth
model, which they understand is different from this old economy
growth
model?
You know, the companies will pay tax, the jobs they create will create
growth
so people who get those jobs and their incomes rise will come back to the state through the tax mechanism.
If we can actually have a broader theory of value creation and allow us to actually admit what the state has been doing and reap something back, it might just be that in the next round, and I hope that we all hope that the next big revolution will in fact be green, that that period of
growth
will not only be smart, innovation-led, not only green, but also more inclusive, so that the public schools in places like Silicon Valley can actually also benefit from that growth, because they have not.
It's hard to imagine a civilization without bridges because they're so essential for
growth
and development of human society, but they're not just about a safe way across a river or an obstacle.
Well, the classical approach consists of applying intervention that would promote the
growth
of the severed fiber to the original target.
If we do not include young people in the
growth
of our cities, if we do not provide them opportunities, the story of waithood, the gateway to terrorism, to violence, to gangs, will be the story of cities 2.0.
Connect young people with the resources they need, provide them the support they need to go from ideation to creation, and you will create catalysts for urban
growth.
And many different reforms aim at holding back this
growth.
Alongside
growth
and sexual maturity, this system regulates everything from your sleep to the rhythm of your beating heart, exerting its influence over each and every one of your cells.
Both hormones play a role in pregnancy, as well, alongside more than 10 other hormones that ensure the
growth
of the fetus, enable birth, and help the mother feed her child.
The process of the birth of a new solar system and the
growth
of planets can be a violent and messy business.
For an economist, this is highly unusual, and it's extremely exciting, because this is a transformation as powerful as the Industrial Revolution and more, and before the Industrial Revolution, there was no economic
growth
to speak of.
First, we've already lived through mechanization of agriculture, automation of industry, and employment has gone up, because innovation is fundamentally about
growth.
In the U.S. alone, the industrial Internet could raise average income by 25 to 40 percent over the next 15 years, boosting
growth
to rates we haven't seen in a long time, and adding between 10 and 15 trillion dollars to global GDP.
And so the speed of the adoption of things is just going to become that much more rapid, in a way that we just totally cannot conceive, when you get it to 6.3 billion and the
growth
in the world's population.
The model that at least I was brought up in and a lot of us doing business were brought up in was one which talked about what I call the three G's of growth:
growth
that is consistent, quarter on quarter;
growth
that is competitive, better than the other person; and
growth
that is profitable, so you continue to make more and more shareholder value.
And I'm afraid this is not going to be good enough and we have to move from this 3G model to a model of what I call the fourth G: the G of
growth
that is responsible.
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