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Economic growth is something every UK government, up to and including the current one, claims to want above all else. But for almost 20 years, not a single one has been able to deliver sustained national economic expansion. 麻豆社 Verify's Policy and Analysis correspondent, Ben Chu asks why generating growth seems to be such a puzzle for us. In the first of a three part series he looks at what growth actually is, how it鈥檚 made human civilisation and the profound damage two decades of feeble growth have done to our living standards. Ben talks to businesses on the ground in the UK about what they think is holding them back and what鈥檚 stopping them - and the country - from growing.

Presenter: Ben Chu, Policy and Analysis correspondent, 麻豆社 Verify
Producer: Caroline Bayley
Editor: Richard Vadon
Production Co-ordinators: Janet Staples and Katie Morrison
Sound Engineer: Neil Churchill