Description: Economic growth and human development move together in the long run, but there is no automatic link--a simple fact, often forgotten. Human Development Report 1996 shows that the links between economic growth and human development have failed in too many countries, for too many people. It maintains that neither economic growth nor advances in human development are sustainable without the other.The Report argues that economic growth, if not properly managed, can be jobless, voiceless, ruthless, rootless and futureless, and thus detrimental to human development. The quality of growth is therefore as important as its quantity--for poverty reduction, human development and sustainability.

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