Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

Economic development is what's going to make mountaintop removal palatable.

The market is the creator of social wealth and the wellspring of self-sustaining economic development.

We do not want to be in a position that is seen as unfriendly to economic development.

World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.