Video: Sustainable patterns of growth
A. Michael Spence
Philip H Knight Professor Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford Graduate School of BusinessWe can’t count on focusing on growth if we want to solve the unemployment problem. A. Michael Spence on why growth no longer equals job creation – and what we can do about it.
Image: Job-seekers visit booths of companies at a job fair held for graduates in Nanjing, China REUTERS/Sean Young
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