This is bad news for other emerging economies, which have depended heavily on China s growth for their own.

The first factor to undermine the pursuit of growth was concern about its sustainability.

The main ingredient needed to achieve faster sustained growth is increased investment.

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

Working longer is thus the ideal way to achieve growth and competitiveness.

In particular, SMEs are primary agents of such growth.

Research throughout the world shows that education is a key prerequisite for sustainable growth.

An open and equitable trading system is of the utmost importance for economic growth and poverty reduction.

Making Asia s service sector more dynamic is essential to future growth.

Indeed, even after the new stimulus package, China will still depend on investment and export for growth.

Thirdly, an open and equitable international trading system is indispensable for sustainable growth and development.

As a rule, broad governance reform is neither necessary nor sufficient for growth.

For China, it is excessive reliance on fixed asset investment for growth.

(a) Africa It is considered most important for Africa to expand and diversify its exports to achieve economic and industrial growth.

The first factor to undermine the pursuit of growth was concern about its sustainability. Can we continue growing at the old rate without endangering our future?

And Russia, despite a very well educated population, continues to be reliant on commodity industries for economic growth.

SADC upheld the principle of gender equality as a necessary and rational approach to economic growth, poverty reduction and overall human development.

It also presupposes creating an environment that enhances remunerative and rewarding employment opportunities through self employment and microenterprises.

As a result, economic growth and job creation remain lackluster, with the availability of investment finance for long term productive assets essential to sustainable growth severely limited.

But it should be a plan for private sector led inclusive growth, supported by efforts in the rest of the Arab world and in the EU.

Presentations and discussions at the Forum revealed a division of views about how best to promote economic growth.

This misallocation of capital hampers any recovery and dims longer term growth prospects.

Equally, there is recognition of the essential role played by developed countries in supporting the efforts of developing countries to achieve internationally agreed development goals.

The LDC Group believed that international trade could contribute to sustained economic growth but needed international support to achieve this.

In addition, a significant number of former military personnel have served in the lucrative security sector in Iraq following the 2003 US led invasion.

It must mean that the country had something so advantageous to itself in terms of economic growth to overcome the negative effects of the Cultural Revolution.

There is also a joint responsibility of the developed and developing countries alike to mobilize international resources for sustainable development.

Indeed, half of Egypt s population is under age 25. Egypt, like dozens of countries around the world, is facing the extreme and largely unmet challenge of ensuring productive and gainful employment for its young people.

Underlining the urgent need to ensure the effective participation of all developing countries in the process of globalization, as an instrument for economic growth and poverty eradication,

But the economic model persisted, with Asian economies stepping in to finance the US deficits, while using the US market to grow rapidly.

The prevailing obsession with the governance agenda entails a broad based effort to remold institutions in developing societies as a prerequisite for economic growth.

Growth in 2006 was attributed to gains in tourism, construction, offshore and other services, and some sub sectors of the banana industry.

Abe is right about one thing Japan needs to get out of its no growth and deflationary trap.

Maximizing economic, social, and cultural contact between rich and poor remains both the best way to aid the flow of knowledge and the last best hope for rapid world development.

Such figures have led many observers to believe that overall domestic demand must be low, leaving China dependent on external markets for growth.

Although IMF considers this pace to be steady, the Government has estimated that a minimum growth rate of 9 per cent is required to achieve recovery.

Or they come from countries in Eastern Europe or Southeast Asia and have fallen victim to human trafficking, lured by decent job offers or simply sold by their parents.

None of these favored categories of credit allocation produce the dynamism and innovation that is needed for long term, self sustaining growth.

At the same time, high economic growth, while indispensable, is not sufficient for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and the objectives set out in the global conferences and summits of the 1990s.

(a) The personal income channel. Employment generating growth presupposes a labour intensive growth path, with the emphasis on public works programmes and investment in infrastructure, including public housing schemes.

With everyone else buying, selling, and holding dollars, it pays to do the same, since markets in dollar denominated assets will be the deepest.

What remains missing is an economic growth strategy for the crisis countries but, given mounting unrest in southern Europe, such a strategy is inevitable.

Trade, as an engine of growth, was a critical factor without a timely and satisfactory outcome to the Doha Development Agenda, developing countries could not achieve the economic growth needed to meet the Millennium Development Goals.

Building productive capacity, increasing international competitiveness and ensuring greater integration into the world economy is imperative for the economic growth of developing countries, especially LDCs.

Introduction The need to address the problem of climate change and respond to the priority needs of developing countries to achieve sustained economic growth and eradicate poverty is one of the guiding principles that govern the implementation of the Convention.