Economics 2.5.4 Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| benefits of economic growth | higher living standards(lifts poverty)/raise employment or real incomes/fiscal dividend(raises tax revenues)/accelerator effect |
| costs of rapid economic growth | risks of higher inflation and interest rates/environmental effects/inequalities of income and wealth |
| why is there a risk of higher inflation and interest rates because of rapid economic growth? | demand-pull and cost-push inflationary pressures due to a positive output gap, banks raise monetary policy interest rates to control inflation, rising consumer spending on imports leads to increasing trade deficits as imports expand |
| why is there a risk of environmental effects because of rapid economic growth? | negative externalities in production and consumption, risk of unsustainable extraction of finite resources |
| Kuznets curve | often used to describe the relationship between economic growth and environmental quality |
| why is there a risk of inequalities of income and wealth because of rapid economic growth? | higher level of inequality and social divisions, gains only go to a few people, no guarantee that it leads to improved well-being |
| why might growth lead to rapid increase in carbon and other emissions? | rapid industrialisation, increasing emissions from urbanization, weak environmental laws & pollution regulations, limited technology or infrastructure, heavy reliance on ‘dirtier fuels’ |
| sustainable growth | growth that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs as it continues without lasting, permanent damage to the environment |
| de-coupling | the separation of previously linked systems so that they may operate independently |
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