Nonetheless, an emphasis on inclusiveness—especially on equality of opportunity in terms of access to markets, resources, and an unbiased regulatory environment—is an essential ingredient of successful growth.
The inclusive growth approach takes a longer-term perspective, as the focus is on productive employment as a means of increasing the incomes of poor and excluded groups and raising their standards of living.
[8] On the one hand, there is a lack of a comprehensive and worldly recognised set of standards to systematically measure the inclusiveness of growth, which makes data collection and policy evaluation difficult.
[9] Both the intangibility and long term perspective make it less desirable than other more conspicuous economic targets for policymakers.
[10] On the other hand, as pointed out by some detractor, many negative externalities of growth are fundamentally at odds with the target of inclusiveness,[11] which further makes the situation complex.