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What is Economic Growth?
- Level:
- GCSE, AS, A-Level, IB
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- AQA, Edexcel, OCR, IB, Eduqas, WJEC
Last updated 2 Jul 2018
Economic growth is a long-term expansion of the productive potential of the economy
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