Economic growth

Achieving economic growth is essential for securing long term development and poverty reduction: no country has succeeded in sustainably reducing poverty in the absence of growth.

Growth is a complex and multi-dimensional topic, encompassing a huge range of issues, including:

• the contribution of business and trade to growth;
• the role of investment and technological progress in stimulating growth;
• sectoral sources of growth such as services, agriculture, or tourism;
• the role of government in creating the right conditions for growth;
• strategies for ensuring growth reduces poverty and inequality (is pro-poor);
• the impact of growth on the environment; and
• the political economy of growth.

Much recent work on growth at ODI has looked at the effects of the global financial crisis, and suitable responses to it.