economic growth

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the impacts of climate change will significantly affect food security, water availability, human health and ultimately economic growth in Africa.
 
The report, which is under discussion at the opening of the four day Climate Change Dialogue at Gallagher Estate in Midrand, found that Africa's climate is already changing and the impacts are already being felt.
 

A report states that the national budget has failed to provide adequately for vulnerable citizens as the economic crisis extends.

According to the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries, about 700 firms have shut down in the past 12 months, increasing the number of jobless people who are in need of state aid.

A parliamentary report on social welfare says the 2014 national budget has failed to provide adequately for items that are critical for assisting vulnerable citizens.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) estimates that 13 percent of Zimbabwean children are engaged in child labour, due to the demise of the country's manufacturing sector.

Labour experts and economists state that parents and caregivers are forced to send their children to work in order to boost household incomes, following company closures, downsizings and retrenchments which led to the depletion of the manufacturing sector in that country.

The United Nations (UN) has warned that some of the world’s poorest nations such as Angola and Ethiopia have failed to cash in on the booming economic growth to create the jobs needed to push their increasing populations out of poverty.
 
UN Conference on Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD) head, Mukhisa Kituyi, states that economic growth which fails to create decent and sufficient jobs is unsustainable.