The New Growth Path’s (NGP) principal objective is â€employment creation’. This is a good start, but what is most conspicuously absent is an international scan of the characteristics of countries that have succeeded at achieving high rates of economic growth and creating â€millions of new jobs’. The NGP envisages a greater role for government. Paradoxically, â€the poor’ only flee in either one direction, from less to more free economies or to ones with a greater role for government to the ones with less, and, therefore, with more growth and opportunity.