“It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services, such as water to drink and facilities for healthcare.” PeopleCountryGrowthWaterEconomyEconomicDevelopmentDrinkEssentialsBasesGoodsHealthcareFacilityEconomic GrowthGoods And Services Author:Lee R. Raymond
“If the world is made to furnish each individual with the means of livelihood and the instruments for his growth and progress, each man has therefore the right to find in the world what is necessary for himself. The recent Council reminded us of this: "God intended the earth and all that it contains for the use of every human being and people. Thus, as all men follow justice and unite in charity, created goods should abound for them on a reasonable basis."” PeopleIfsMenWorldShouldHumansMeanMadeUseEarthPoliticsIndividualGrowthJusticeHuman BeingsEconomyProgressBasesInstrumentsCharityLiberalismReasonableGoodsCouncilLivelihood Author:Pope Paul VI
“Less cars on the road means productivity and jobs growth, as it allows for the more efficient movement of goods and services and encourages greater urban population density.” MeanJobsGrowthGreaterCarMovementPopulationProductivityGoodsEfficientUrbanDensityGoods And ServicesJob GrowthPopulation Density Author:Anthony Albanese
“In all modern depressions, recessions, or growth-correction, as variously they are called, we never miss the goods that are not produced. We miss only the opportunities for the labour - for the jobs - that are not provided.” JobsOpportunityGrowthModernMissingCapitalismLabourGoodsRecessionsCorrections Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“Non-inflationary economic growth - an increase in the production of goods and services - is structurally necessary for the current money system to exist. That is what drives the relentless conversion of life into money.” GrowthEconomicIncreaseCurrentsProductionsConversionGoodsEconomic GrowthRelentlessGoods And Services Author:Charles Eisenstein
“When the banks create the money, they don't create the interest. They send you into the world to compete with everybody else to get the second $100,000 that never was created and bring it back to them. So if we're in a world with zero-growth population, goods, services, and money, the problem would be obvious.” IfsWorldProblemWould BeGrowthInterestPopulationObviousGoodsZero Author:Bernard Lietaer
“Indian manufacturing is constrained in its growth by the fact that it just can't ship goods in and out fast enough to compete with Chinese delivery time. India needs to really focus on this aspect if it is going to grow at anything above 7 percent.” IfsNeedsEnoughFactsGrowsGrowthFocusPercentAspectIndiaShipsChineseIndianGoodsManufacturingDelivery Author:Arjuna Mahendran
“Capital investment in fixed assets that produce real goods is the actual driver of long term economic growth, and until slick financiers hijacked the country with 'new economy' mumbo-jumbo based on computer models and hype most Americans understood this.” LongRealCountryGrowthTermEconomyEconomicProduceComputerModelsUnderstoodInvestmentFixedLong TermGoodsDriversAssetsEconomic GrowthHypeSlickFinanciersCapital Investment Author:Richard Karn
“The problems that are arising at Johannesburg International Airport are because of the growth of volume, not because of inefficiencies at the Airport. But, the growth in movement of goods by air means that cargo capacity needs to be improved. And I am quite certain that we will do it.” NeedsMeanProblemCertainGrowthAirMovementCapacityInternationalGoodsVolumeAirportsInefficiencyCargoJohannesburg Author:Thabo Mbeki
“As we move toward the pluralist commonwealth, economic interventions that stabilize communities - for instance by localizing the flows of goods and services or by promoting worker ownership - not only have immediate practical benefits but provide the necessary preconditions for the growth and development of a renewed culture of sustainable democracy that can serve as the basis for still further transformations at larger scales.” StillsMovingCultureGrowthCommunityDemocracyEconomicDevelopmentBenefitsFlowBasesTransformationWorkersScalesPracticalsInstanceGoodsOwnershipInterventionPromotingCommonwealthGoods And Services Author:Gar Alperovitz
“Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.” PhilosophyPoliticalGrowthEconomicEconomicsTradeGoodsGlobalizationEconomic GrowthSpursFree Trade Author:Robert Reich