Liberalized trade - in broadly multilateral, regional, or bilateral agreements - is a key ingredient in the recipe for prosperity... An absolute prerequisite for long-term economic growth is full participation in the global economy and trading system.

The strong domestic economy should cushion the impact of an anticipated slowdown in Hong Kong's trade growth this year.

The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with 'sustained economic growth.'

Today we hear that the gains from economic growth accrue to the highest-income earners while the standard of living of the poor and middle America stagnates and the gap between the richest and the poorest grows ever wider. That portrait of the country is wrong.

The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth.

In 2006, the global economy was doing well. In India, the political and economic situation was stable. All key macroeconomic indicators reflected an economy that was in robust good health.