MOST people take growth for granted. We expect living standards to increase over time and that our children will enjoy a better quality of life than us.
But growth is not a given and it is driven by economic processes that can and do change. There has been a gradual slowing in global growth over the past couple of decades, and some of this can be pinned on structural factors that form the very foundation of growth itself.
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