Timur Kuran
Yes. Growth refers to an expansion in the goods and services that a society produces. The goods and services produced by society may be available very widely, or alternatively they might be available to a small minority. They might be used efficiently, or they might be used inefficiently. In providing goods and services, health services, say to a particular group, we might do it in a way that minimises the costs of providing those services.
On the other hand, at the other extreme, there may be various groups that get in the way, that collect various rents in the process of delivering these services to others in which case the targeted groups get a small share of the intended, a relatively small share, of the intended benefits. In the case where resources are delivered efficiently and they are delivered quite equitably, growth and development are more or less equivalent, but they don’t have, you have growth but not necessarily development when the resources are distributed quite unequally, and inefficiently.
