Economic Progress

Why economic growth is not sufficient to tackle inequality

A woman holds her newborn baby in a nursery in the Juba Teaching Hospital in Juba April 3, 2013. Very few births in South Sudan, which has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world at 2,054 per 100,000 live births, are assisted by trained midwives, according to the UNDP's website. Picture taken April 3, 2013.

Economic policy needs to target equality as well as growth. Image: REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu

Rebeca Grynspan
Secretary-General, UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
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