Is sustainable economic growth the best way to promote economic and human development?

Question

Sustainable economic growth is the best way to promote economic and human development leading to reduced poverty.

Answer 1

I think you've gotten it backwards. There are two contributors to economic growth, increasing numbers of the workforce and increasing productivity. Increase in productivity is a direct consequence of economic and human development (emergence of new, more capital-intensive industries and better education and healthcare allow people to be more productive). So growth is a consequence of development, not the other way around...

Answer 2

It's arguably the same thing as economic development.

Human development is another matter. Human beings need a lot more than goods and services (e.g. love).

Answer 3

growth yes, wealth distrbuiton inequites are based on politics and in all forms of -isms (capital, social or marx), is concentrated in the the hands of a few and they do get rch.