The article examines the scientific approaches of leading researchers to defining the essence of the categories of "economic growth" and "economic development", as well as the factors that shape their quality. The dialectic of the relationship between economic growth and economic development is explored, their comparability and opposite directions are argued.

economic growth, economic development, gross domestic product, welfare, technological progres

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