### accountants figure:

Economic growth
* Some economic growth leads to consumption.
* appears to have become less effective in reducing poverty.
* brings results.
* byproduct of the unleashing of human potential.
* can enhance health status because it increases living standards in general
  - occur with or without an overall economic development strategy
  - put pressure on the global environment
  - reduce poverty by generating employment and incomes
  - sometimes distribute economic benefits inequitably
  - take Vermonters in many directions
* causes a simple proportional increase in travel growth over the long term.
* changes any geographic area.
* comes from work, saving and investment.
* consists of an increase in the production and consumption of goods and services.
* creates a favorable climate for investment
  - opportunity
  - profit opportunity
* depends more than ever on knowledge, creativity, and innovation.
* depends on availability of power
  - the development, and application of technology
* driven by private sector foreign investment is seen as the key to development.
* gives leeway to buy food.
* has potential.
* involves the expansion of the economy as it now stands.
* is about producing more and more wealth
  - actually a resource generating process
  - also a major driver of the growth of transnational education
* is an accountants figure
  - essential component in any country's strategy for sustainable development
  - increase in production in society
  - but one aspect of human well-being
  - constrained by a number of factors, particularly by the lack of infrastructure
  - dependent upon investment, which is tied to savings
  - different from economic development
* is driven by the accumulation of knowledge
  - predominantly by a higher investment ratio and lower taxation
  - enhanced when expenditures with a good economic multiplier are implemented
  - found in most other Pacific Rim nations
  - fundamental to poverty reduction
* is good in some countries due to consumers borrowing money
  - things
  - inevitable in an environment of abundant resources
* is key to building a new city that works
  - environmental cleanup
  - measured in increasing idleness
  - no longer dependent on a growing domestic population
  - often the glue that holds a society together
  - possible without growth in energy demand
  - reflected by an overall improvement in the quality of life in a given country
  - responsible for changing the standard of living for most people in the world
  - stunted by prejudice, illiteracy and the high birth rate
  - supported by domestic demand
* is the answer to many ills of society
  - best way to deal with problems of poverty and inequality
  - driving dynamic of modern societies
  - engine that powers the expansion of many job fields
  - foundation of our future
  - increase in the production of goods and services
  - main factor driving growth in energy demand
  - result of a nation's cultural and institutional structures
  - sine qua non for sustainable human development
  - social tide that lifts all boats
  - solution, they say, to the problems of poverty and low incomes
  - usually a necessary condition for poverty reduction
  - visible in all sectors
  - vital to prosperity, for it creates new jobs and rising incomes
* is, of course, a driving force for liberalizing markets.
* key element for poverty reduction.
* leads to the development of a large and strong middle class - in any country.
* major determinant of both energy demand and carbon dioxide emissions
  - and emissions
* means a nation is able to produce more of everything
  - the development of land and resources
* necessary condition for poverty alleviation.
* occurs significantly faster in states with limited taxes
  - when output, or real GDP, grows
  - where there is an increase in the level of output of a country
* physical process
* plays a central political, economic and psycho-cultural role in western society.
* poor guide to human welfare.
* powerful tool for reducing poverty by generating employment and income.
* pre-requisite for eliminating hunger.
* reduces the burden of debt.
* refers to an increase in the productive capacity of an economy.
* requires efficient transportation
* results from growth
  - productivity growth
* rise in a. real GDP per person.
* subsists on creativity and change.
* tends to be driven by fast knowledge
  - follow a cyclical pattern
  - occur in a cyclical pattern