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13/04/2013 GMT

Progress: Are we Making Any?

BBC World Service - The Forum, Progress: Are we Making Any?

Advances suggest that things can only get better for the majority of people. Is it true?

Advances in science, social justice and personal prosperity suggest that things can only get better. So why are so many of us afraid they might get worse?

Recent advances in science, social justice and personal prosperity suggest that things can only get better for the majority of people. So why are so many of us afraid they might get worse?  Best-selling Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid weighs up the balance sheet of profit and loss in rising Asia, Indian investor and writer Ruchir Sharma explains why it is so hard to sustain economic progress, and American moral philosopher Susan Neiman cautions against equating progress with increasing wealth.  

Photo shows construction site on the Jiangumenenei Road in Beijing. Photo credit: BBC/ Kevin Foy

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