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The goods and services that we all need are not just there – they need to be produced – and growth means that their quality and quantity increases. Open at source

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Poverty, prosperity, and growth are often measured in monetary terms, most commonly as people’s income. But while monetary measures have some important advantages, they have the big disadvantage that they are abstract.
Economic growth describes an increase in the quantity and quality of the economic goods and services that a society produces. 
measuring people’s income is a way of measuring the options that they have, rather than the choices that they make. It respects people’s judgment to decide for themselves what they find most important for their lives.
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