Economic development -- Sustainable development

p.233 - 262 ; The 1990s at the end of a century and a millennium were a period of stocking about development. Studies reexamined and assessed some of the central tenets of development. Sustained economic growth emerged unscathed as fundamental for reducing poverty. The development record confirmed the efficacy of contain reforms of sustaining growth in both developing and industrial countries: investing more and more efficiently in education an dhealth, reducing barriers to trade and invetment, dismanling domestic price controls in agriculture and industry, and reducing fiscal deficits. Neither the economic ups nor the downs of the 1990s called these relationships into question. The assessments also uncovered some crucial gaps. Missing from country policymaking as well as the advice, conditions, and financing of external entities has been adequte attention to the quality and sustainability of growth. Without that, the real potential of reforms cannot be realized.