What can we do to raise economic growth? •  We must have a consensus on growth and set ourselves as a nation an economic growth target  •  Several recipes of achieving a 5 percent average growth are:  •  2  a. Recipe 1: We need to set targets in our key resource sectors  b.
First, we have now got some of the usual cyclical contractionary forces behind us, which in a more normal business cycle we might still be facing. The housing contraction is the most obvious of these, but the inventory cycle has also been probably brought forward and therefore may be already half completed.