Without effective states working with active and involved citizens, there is little chance for the growth that is needed to abolish global poverty.

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The Global Growth Quest

A Global Growth Bargain

In fact, global growth has decelerated.

Hard Truths About Global Growth

Enterprise development is central to economic growth and increased employment.

Also, because conflict may destroy growth opportunities, it may be seen as costlier when growth is strong.

Private investments, including foreign investments, were the key to sustained growth and employment generation.

Developing local capacities in Africa for the identification of growth opportunities through resource mobilization

First, there will be a significant drag on world growth.

It will encourage the reemergence of global imbalances.

The EU budget is an investment vehicle that boosts economic growth and creates jobs.

Economic growth and job creation slow, while exports soar.

The claimed increase in jobs has barely kept up with growth in the labor force.

Job creation remains weak, and employment continues to diverge from growth.

Development policies should therefore be supportive of growth, poverty reduction and the creation of decent work for all.

The global economy is at a critical juncture. Most economists agree on what is needed to avoid another round of lost growth opportunities, inadequate employment, financial instability, and worsening inequality.

This post is part of our special coverage Occupy Worldwide. From October 21 to 23, 2011, Jordan hosted the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Special Meeting on Economic Growth and Job Creation in the Arab World at the Dead Sea.

As they continue to grow, their share of the world economy will continue to rise, boosting global growth beyond what it otherwise would be.

Some parts of the global economy are growing.

The G 20 s growth compact must be a jobs compact, too.

It is a tried and true path towards growth, competitiveness and employment.

We are now pursuing an economic strategy that is pro growth, pro poor and pro job.

So you see, this is not about doing good, this is about global growth and global employment.

But can this apparently benign pattern of global growth be sustained, particularly since growth has been accompanied by ever widening global financial imbalances?

The opportunities for growth in Europe and the US from this additional global demand are enormous.

But the common objective for fiscal policy must be to support durable medium term growth and job creation.

The goal of equity needs to be firmly embedded within the policy regimes of the State in order to increase the chance that economic growth will be accompanied by equitable distribution of its benefits.

With the global economy recovering, China s trade surplus began to grow.

Consider the International Monetary Fund s regular projections of world growth.

But, as America s savings rate begins to rise, China s export led growth model, which has promoted employment in China at the cost of global trade imbalances, may no longer be possible.

China s continued economic growth and integration into the global economy gives America even greater opportunities to grow and succeed.

Now it looks like politicians may be looking to offload onto the Bank responsibility for generating economic growth and jobs.

This does not mean that growth opportunities in emerging markets have disappeared, but expectations do need to be recalibrated.

Through the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), the United States is helping African economies seize the opportunities of trade.

How could a tripling of global GDP and a fourfold expansion of the world s high income population be good news, given all that goes with it?

If America s bubble economy is now tapped out, global growth will slow sharply.

First, the delay implies a lost opportunity to raise global growth.

Global Compact members were small and large corporations from developed and developing countries.

That alone will tend to elevate global growth compared to the world where industrial countries, and the US in particular, were in the growth driving seat.

In today s crisis lies tomorrow s opportunity economic opportunity, measured in jobs and growth.

The number of the new working poor rose steadily, as the informal sector was increasingly deprived of economic growth opportunities.

Reinvigorating global growth runs a distant second.

But the outlook for 2007 is for weakening global economic growth.