Reduced population growth means less pressure on land, water, and biodiversity.

reducing the energy and carbon intensity of future growth

To some, this logic leads to the conclusion that growth is the problem, and that less growth is the solution.

In Thailand, NGO participation had been instrumental in reducing population growth.

The better the match, the faster will be the rate of poverty reduction for any given rate of growth.

Empirical evidence shows that there is no invariant relationship between the rate of growth and the rate of poverty reduction, and that even in a context of faster growth, complementary policies specifically targeting poverty are required.

In most Latin American countries, structural change has served to reduce rather than promote economic growth.

Less progress appears to have been achieved in regard to the PRGF process.

Otherwise, it will be impossible to achieve long term poverty reduction and inclusive growth.

While economic growth is critical for poverty reduction, reviving growth in lagging regions will take time.

The good news is that we can achieve what s needed, we can afford to do it, and we can do it all without curtailing growth.

By contrast, Iceland s debt has become so large that it is likely to constrain future growth.

Second, regional policies that promote balanced growth could lower overall growth, thereby impeding poverty reduction.

Growth and poverty reduction lie at the heart of poverty reduction strategies in many least developed countries.

Equally important, however, is the reduction of economic imbalances and European policy coordination to enable growth.

There is broad agreement that economic growth leads to poverty reduction in developing countries.

Zambia's economic policy objectives are anchored in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) whose overarching goal is poverty reduction through sustained economic growth and employment creation.

While growth facilitates the reduction of poverty, at the same time not all growth has been equally pro poor .

However, it is now widely recognized that not all growth or development will contribute to the reduction of poverty, nor does growth always guarantee social justice.

The tenth five year (2002 2007) development plan aimed at poverty reduction through broad based economic growth, infrastructure development and social inclusion.

This is vital because, according to the World Bank, growth in farming eliminates poverty twice as much as growth in any other economic sector.

Meanwhile, a highly interdependent and (now) less dynamic world economy has been limiting the scope for external growth drivers.

Historically, agriculture has driven economic performance in many countries, generating growth that has been shown to be at least twice as effective in reducing poverty as growth in other sectors.

Coverage of infrastructure, rural development and other areas with poverty reduction potential and the integration of the macroeconomic framework with sectoral strategies have been inadequate.

A direct attack on poverty can yield a double dividend in reducing human misery, it could spark growth, thereby creating more political space for direct poverty reduction.

Economic growth by itself is not sufficient, and high growth rates alone will not guarantee significant poverty reduction.

These assessments incorporated priority interventions to eliminate gender related barriers to poverty reduction and economic growth.

To raise economic growth rates in order to reduce poverty and ensure the social and political sustainability of peace and development processes in the region.

By contrast, limiting migration slows economic growth and undermines societies long term competitiveness.

The adjustment process must extend over a longer time period, must minimize social distress and promote growth.

At a time when growth is too slow to reduce massive unemployment, every decimal matters.

Criteria for debt relief should be focused on the effective utilization of the resources released for poverty reduction and growth.

By limiting the study population to children in the other two groups, for whom exogenous growth hormone stimulates normal growth, researchers achieved a 100 relative treatment difference.

Any policies designed to restrict the associated growth in greenhouse gas emissions would need to be targeted at all of these areas.

Moreover, this broad pattern of growth is expected to continue to prevail in 2005 and 2006.

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

Regulation and regulatory issues emerge as the next frontier or opportunity for ensuring sustained growth in the retailing sector.

But, in developing countries, where only sustained growth can lift people out of poverty, limiting it cannot be the answer.

Conscious of the significance of the economic growth, in particular after the Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip, to the generation of job creation for poverty reduction and promotion of peace and stability,

So potent has Vietnam s growth been over the last decade that the country s economy is overheating.

With the right policies and a global framework, we can generate economic growth and steer it in a low carbon direction.

Every ten years or so, we think that a particular model of growth is so broken that it cannot be resurrected.

Poverty reduction

Meanwhile, a highly interdependent and (now) less dynamic world economy has been limiting the scope for external growth drivers. Accordingly, even countries with sound balance sheets and manageable leverage have experienced a growth slowdown.

Responsible economic management, poverty reduction programs, structural reforms, and greater openness to foreign investment have all helped to generate years of low inflation growth.