Abstract
Throughout this document, the opportunity is provided to show the relationship between sustainable development and economic growth, focusing on their definitions, their disparity, and their consequences, at the same time it gives us a vision of the evolution of the importance of economic development and of their inability to solve the problem of poverty.
The satisfaction of the needs of the human being, would go through seeking a balance between economic growth, care for the environment, and social welfare, a breakdown of this balance has put into question the traditional model of economic development, in which they raise fundamental questions where the very accumulation of wealth creates poverty.
The bibliographic search carried out has led us to obtain a series of conclusions on the proposed terms, in which a robust social solidarity economy would lead us to the eradication of poverty.
This work takes us to a reflection on the sustainability of natural resources, the viability of the economic development model, and its rate of growth in a context of globalization in which localities are left behind, but without being forgotten, although they have no involvement in models that meet their development needs.
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![The Relationships between the Functioning of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being. Source: Montes C & Sala O [10].](https://www.igminresearch.com/articles/figures/igmin224/igmin224.g002.png)
![What is sustainable development? Source: Velazco González AR [11].](https://www.igminresearch.com/articles/figures/igmin224/igmin224.g003.png)
![Evolution of GDP (in real terms), greenhouse gas emissions, and greenhouse gas intensity in the EU economy. Source: European Commission [19].](https://www.igminresearch.com/articles/figures/igmin224/igmin224.g004.png)
