GBR：2024年东南亚化学品特别报道（英文版）

GDP growth is a modern fixation, introduced at the end of the Second World War (WW2). Ancient dynasties, kingdoms, empires and the first republics all sought to accumulate territory and wealth, but countries today frame their central policies for above x % annual growth and large GDPs in PPP (purchasing power parity) terms, which are believed to be the recipe for development and prosperity. But in the “tepid twenties,” to use the words of IMF head Kristalina Georgieva describing the current d