# Prof. Paul Romer on government reform and economic growth

1 Faculty News May 12, 2013 ![Financial Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025700.jpg?itok=LSPbU2V1)>

Excerpt from [Financial Times](http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/e43830b0-b8d8-11e2-869f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2TazutFbA) -- “'What we need is not bigger or smaller government for growth, but narrower and stronger government,' says [Paul Romer](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/paul-romer), the growth economist."

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