Martin Wolf Quotes

Smart, sustainable, inclusive growth is the key to job-creation and the future prosperity of Europe.

Some policies may promote growth in ways that will increase poverty; others may promote growth in ways that will reduce it. Some growth strategies may be good for the environment; others may not be.

Growth is good for this society as long as it doesn't pass the point of tripping off inflation.

It is past time to acknowledge that economic growth … is good, and that what the world needs is more of it.

For India's economy to expand as rapidly and yet more sustainably than China's, we need to make our differences into virtues rather than vulnerabilities.

We cannot sustain long-term growth in our economies if we do not protect and preserve our environment.

We need economic growth that is sustainable and job-rich rather than just statistically impressive.

We need to have strong growth, fair growth, sustained growth.

Investment in infrastructure is a long term requirement for growth and a long term factor that will make growth sustainable.

The Australia to 2050 report highlights something that is well understood by South Australians, that infrastructure plays a key role in long-term economic expansion.

Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.

I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fairness, efficiency, solidarity and growth.

That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.

A lot of our fiscal deficit went to fund consumption and really did not get used to build investment and infrastructure. The trouble is, you can get a spurt in GDP growth, which may not be sustainable. I would much rather build the gradient of a long-term marathon.

India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.'

Growth and prosperity. These are the blocks with which we must build our welfare society.

Growth can also involve producing services instead of goods. In particular, a major expansion of public and caring services (like child care, education, elder care, and other life-affirming programs) would generate huge increases in GDP and incomes, with virtually no impact on the environment.

Everything needs to work at the same time. But what keeps society vibrant permanently is jobs, industry, business, and stuff like that. It pays for everything else. If you just build affordable housing, and those people don't have jobs, it'll no longer be affordable soon. So you really have to build around the business community.

The UPA's strategy of 'inclusive growth' remains the foundational pillar of economically, politically, and socially sustainable development.

We need a national focus on increasing the sustainable growth rate of our economy.

If we want growth today to be more innovation-driven, more inclusive and more sustainable, then we need a more active state, not a less active one. Yet we still hear the dogma that we should just fix market failure by focusing on science and infrastructure, and to "level the playing field."

Aid should shift to investment. This will help countries stand on their own.

The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the - not so very - long run.

The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.

Including the value of natural resources and our social capital in national accounting is a vital step to achieve economic growth that is equitable and sustainable.