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                            "text": "Good health, nutrition, a place to live, education\u2026 Many of the things we care most about require goods and services produced by people: the care that nurses and doctors give; the food we eat; the homes we live in; the education that teachers provide.",
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                            "text": ". In places that have seen substantial economic growth, few now go ",
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                            "text": "Similarly, the history of economic growth is also the history of how large global inequalities emerged \u2013 in ",
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                            "text": ", and many other dimensions. In some countries, the quantity and quality of the goods and services underpinning these outcomes grew substantially over the ",
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                            "text": "Of course, economic growth does not reflect everything we value. On ",
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                            "text": " will depend on whether, and which, countries are able to substantially grow their economy. As such, it is one of the most important aspects of understanding our world today and what is possible for the future.",
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