The Milan Endowment for Growth in Academics ( MEGA ), is Tennessee's first private community financial endowment for public education.

* Private Equity Growth Capital Council – advocacy organization for the private equity industry

:... e come to the well-known study, Limits to Growth, published under the sponsorship of the ' Club de Rome ' - an influential body of private individuals.

The local projects are a major focus of the Smart Growth strategy by the City of San Diego, which is funded in part by private organizations and philanthropic individuals, notably Sol Price ( founder of Fedmart and Price Club ).

Growth capital ( also called expansion capital and growth equity ) is a type of private equity investment, most often a minority investment, in relatively mature companies that are looking for capital to expand or restructure operations, enter new markets or finance a significant acquisition without a change of control of the business.

Growth capital resides at the intersection of private equity and venture capital and as such growth capital is provided by a variety of sources.

As Secretary of Finance, he co-authored the Pact for Stability and Economic Growth ( in ), a national strategy to control the fiscal deficit and inflation in coordination with the private sector.

Growth came at a high cost in terms of weak and corrupt institutions, severe public indebtedness through mismanagement of the financial sector, the rapid depletion of Indonesia ’ s natural resources, and a culture of favors and corruption in the business elite.

Mauritius, with its strong textile sector, has been well poised to take advantage of the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act ( AGOA ).

Growth from 2002 to 2006 was especially strong in the transport and communications sector, which became the biggest component of GDP, although many sectors also saw strong growth.

Growth has been fueled by the construction sector, transportation, port and Panama Canal-related activities, and tourism.

Growth has been led by the tourist sector, which employs about 30 % of the labor force and provides more than 70 % of hard currency earnings, followed by tuna fishing.

Bishwanath Goldar in his paper ‘ Import Substitution, Industrial Concentration and Productivity Growth in Indian Manufacturing ’ writes: " Earlier studies on productivity for the industrial sector of developing countries have indicated that increases in total factor productivity, ( TFP ) are an important source of industrial growth ," ( Goldar 143 ).

Growth has been between 12 and 15 % in the years from 2005 to 2007, mostly driven by a booming industrial sector ( growing more than 20 % per year ) and to a lesser extent the service sector.

Growth of the first sector has been positive but overshadowed by industrial and service growth.

In the 1950s the Cassa per il Mezzogiorno was set up as a huge public master plan to help industrializing the South, aiming to do this in two ways: through land reforms creating 120, 000 new smallholdings, and through the " Growth Pole Strategy " whereby 60 % of all government investment would go to the South, thus boosting the Southern economy by attracting new capital, stimulating local firms, and providing employment.

# Growth, stability and employment would increase as a result of euro membership, but only if convergence and flexibility were sufficient.

Flexicurity has therefore been adopted as a leitmotiv of the European employment strategy and the revised Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Jobs.

In particular, the Guideline No. 21 of the Integrated Guidelines for Growth and Employment ( adopted by the European Council and setting the objectives for the periods 2005-2008 and 2008 – 2010 ) calls on Member States to “… promote flexibility combined with employment security and reduce labour market segmentation, having due regard to the role of the social partners ”.

Growth in ferrous metallurgy, which is dominated by the Kremikovtsi Metals Combine, has been delayed by a complex privatization process and by obsolete capital equipment.

Cape Verde also is eligible for trade benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act ( AGOA ), and has signed an Open Skies agreement to facilitate air travel safety and expansion.

The disease has also been shown to result from use of Human Growth Hormone obtained from the pituitary glands of persons who died from Creutzfeldt – Jakob Disease, though the known incidence of this cause is ( as of April 2004 ) quite small.

Growth in both manufacturing and industry as a whole has been slowed by a lack of capital investment.

This argument was explicitly given by Adam Smith in his Theory of Moral Sentiments, and has more recently been developed by Harvard economist Benjamin Friedman in his book The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth.

Lesotho has taken advantage of the African Growth and Opportunity Act ( AGOA ) to become the largest exporter of garments to the US from sub-Saharan Africa.

Growth was fastest in the 1980s, after child mortality had dropped sharply, and has slowed slightly since then as the birth rate has sunk slightly.

Swaziland ’ s other key trading partners are the United States and the EU, from whom the country has received trade preferences for apparel exports ( under the African Growth and Opportunity Act – AGOA – to the US ) and for sugar ( to the EU ).

Growth for 2010 stood at 2. 6 % The stock market collapse has deeply affected investment income earned abroad.

Growth in the number of Internet users has been fairly steady since 2005:

Growth has been rapid since then.

Growth in informal electronic trading systems has challenged the traditional business of stock exchanges.

The concept of " Smart Growth " has emerged in the last 10 – 20 years driven by " new guard " urban planners, innovative architects, visionary developers, community activists, and historic preservationists.

Smart Growth is a term which has become codified in Federal and State regulations.

The Smart Growth Network has recognized these U. S. cities for implementing smart growth principles:

In Savannah, Georgia ( US ) the historic Oglethorpe Plan has been shown to contain most of the elements of Smart Growth in its network of wards, each of which has a central civic square.

An overarching objective has been to manage the growth of Auckland in a higher density, centres-based manner consistent with the Auckland Regional Growth Strategy.

Growth has been held back by a decline in world coffee demand, and the erratic commitment of the government to economic reform.

One area of research is in the use of Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 ( IGF-1 ), which has been shown to partially reverse signs in MeCP2 mutant mice.

Growth in real output averaged a sound 5 % since 1996, but a rapid population rise offset much of this growth on a per capita basis.

Growth in real GDP averaged 8 % from 1991 – 1997, but fell to half that level in 1998 because of tight monetary policies ( implemented to keep the current account deficit in check ) and because of lower export earnings, the latter which was a product of the Asian financial crisis.

Growth in output in 1992 – 97 averaged less than the growth rate of the population.

Growth rates have averaged between 3 %– 5 % since then.

Growth slowed in the 1980s when the population increase averaged only 1. 7 percent annually.