economic progress
collocation in Englishmeaningsofeconomicandprogress
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economic
adjective
uk/ˌiː.kəˈnɒm.ɪk/us/ˌiː.kəˈnɑː.mɪk/
relating to trade, industry, ...
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progress
noun[U]
uk/ˈprəʊ.ɡres/us/ˈprɑː.ɡres/
movement to an improved or more developed state, or to a ...
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(Definition ofeconomicandprogressfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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More broadly, wereeconomicprogressand economic development linear processes?
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Over this periodeconomicprogresscould well fall behind population expansion.
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This casts into doubt the presumed trade-off betweeneconomicprogressand environmental protection.
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Why, then, was agrarian life so persistently identified with social stability andeconomicprogress?
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According to this vieweconomicprogressin society does not render welfare programmes superfluous.
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It also enables him to set forth a number of noteworthy prescriptions for achievingeconomicprogress.
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In any case, they argued,economicprogresswas impossible without equal rights.
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Once they had achieved a substantial level of cultural andeconomicprogress, equal rights would follow.
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Numbers and the statistics that flowed from them were regarded as objective measures of social andeconomicprogress.
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The other dominant approach to economic growth disparities emphasizes the importance of fractionalization in preventingeconomicprogress.
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Theireconomicprogressis tremendous.
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Do health and education come beforeeconomicprogress, or is it fromeconomicprogressthat health and education come?
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However,economicprogressand delivery of social services, such as healthcare and education, also depend on the success of the efforts to curb rampant corruption.
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Yes, there had beeneconomicprogress, and everyone had piped water and electricity, but how were they going to educate their children?
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In other words, there was, in general, no built-in tendency among large landowners or industrialists to support reform as a factor in toeconomicprogress.
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Strong environmental performance appears to be positively correlated with competitiveness, putting into question the presumed trade-off betweeneconomicprogressand environmental gains.
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They show the obvious, that debt repayment, particularly the interest component, is severely limiting many developing countries' ability to make social andeconomicprogress.
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While not really an economic policy demand itself, for business the precondition ofeconomicprogresswas a normalisation of the political situation.
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One factor was the tremendouseconomicprogressof the mid twentieth century, and the concomitant transformation of the employment patterns and living conditions.
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These developments placed a heavy burden on transport facilities, with informed contemporaries arguing that an improved harbour held the key to furthereconomicprogress.
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Thiseconomicprogressset the stage for important substitution industrialization, upon which nearly all of the raw material exporting countries embarked.
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Rapid population growth slowseconomicprogress.
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