Word: growth
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Plainly, it would be a mistake to let the momentum of aid slip further. Over the past few years, 41 poor countries have managed to achieve yearly growth rates of 2% or better in per-capita income, despite sharp population increases. Pearson's goal is a growth rate of 6% throughout the next decade, and "self-sustaining" expansion for most of the underdeveloped countries by the year 2000. If the report's proposed aid increases are adopted, and if population growth can be held down-two enormous ifs -they might make it. If not, Pearson's "village...
Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson is convinced that the hottest growth stock in U.S. protest is conservation. In fact, Nelson himself is toiling to make the nation's campuses erupt next spring-in a giant, peaceful teach-in about environmental evils. As he has been telling audiences across the country for the past month: "The new generation is not satisfied with coming out on the losing end of man's drive for progress and profit...
...shown more inclination to defend its strategy than to change it. Paul McCracken, the President's chief economist, insisted last week that the economy is entering "a period of transition" and that "we must not lose our cool." He has impressive evidence to bolster his argument. The growth of the output of goods and services has slackened. Profits are expected to fall in this year's third quarter. Housing, industrial production, new orders for factory goods and stock prices have declined. Over lunch at Pittsburgh's elite Duquesne Club, industrialists grumble about slipping demand and sales. Automakers...
...confusion that surrounds the growth of the University's committees is mind-boggling. The only thing to compare it to is the confusion that shrouds the factions of SDS. Indeed, both segments of the University have grown so complicated that you need a program to know the players...
Although 500 million of the world's 3.5 billion people still go to bed hun gry, agricultural technology has shown that food production can indeed keep ahead of population growth. Last week the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization reported that world farm output increased in 1968 by about 3% v. a population growth...