Policymakers need to strike a balance between commercial requirements for profitability to sustain economic growth against the resulting costs to the environment.
But the bottom line is this: Given our energy needs, in order to sustain economic growth and produce jobs, and keep our businesses competitive, we are going to need to harness traditional sources of fuel even as we ramp up production of new sources of renewable, homegrown energy.
In an attempt to sustain its economic growth, China eased some of its monetary policies last year.
The emerging superpower has essentially built its foreign policy around securing resources needed to sustain its economic growth.
But there are question marks over whether the public-sector sort has the same entrepreneurial drive, political impact or capacity to sustain high economic growth over time.
The project is currently seeking a loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Loan Guarantee Program Office, which supports accelerated commercial use of innovative energy technologies to help sustain economic growth, yield environmental benefits, and produce a more stable and secure energy supply.
They build the roads, bridges, dams, ports and railways that China needs to sustain its rapid economic growth.
Extremely high readings become increasingly rare over longer periods, however, since it is quite a feat to sustain the growth in economic profit at a high percentage of sales.
It said immigration was needed to help offset a slowing birth rate and ageing population, and it needed to find a balance between the number of Singaporeans and foreigners in order to sustain its rate of economic growth.
Analysts say that demand in these economies has been boosted in part by rising income levels, and also by attempts by policymakers to sustain growth amid global economic problems.
The president seems to be betting that a successful restructuring will increase domestic investment from its current level of 17% of GDP to more than 20%, enough to sustain impressive growth throughout the economic cycle.
He also promised to work to address pollution problems and push to sustain the Hong Kong's economic growth.
This rebalancing is still a work in progress, but everybody is on record now saying surplus countries and deficit countries both have to be mindful of their policies and think about the adjustments that they need so that we can sustain economic growth and keep our borders open to goods and services over the long term.
The loosening of economic controls has helped to sustain growth of around 5% and has created a growing consumer class.
China needs a "renewed reform momentum" to sustain long term growth, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has said.
BBC: China needs 'renewed reform momentum', says OECD survey
Another immediate challenge is to sustain growth in the face of the global economic and financial crisis.
Yet it is crucial to sustain the economy's strong growth, because an economic collapse could, he suggests, be followed by political collapse in which case Georgia could relapse into Russia's orbit.
The UN blames the massive migrations from rural areas either on population growth that the countryside cannot sustain or on economic prescriptions said to emphasize commercial agriculture over small farming, thus driving the poor off the land.
Third, despite the recent pick-up in global economic activity, Japan cannot count on foreign demand being strong enough for it to sustain export-led growth, as it did in the past decade.
The chances are that the latest round of economic and political instability in India will mean that the country will be hard pushed to sustain its annual growth rate above six percent.
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