Majority of governments has a view that economic progress much more significant than other types of development. Minor people, conversely have other opinions that other kinds of progress are on the same level of attention in terms of importance.
There are several opinions why most governments put economic progress on first level. Firtly, economic progress is seen as a contribution that pulls other developing areas in terms of spreading financial resources across the country. In other words, economic stability plays a crucial role for increasing GDP of each country and it can not be downgraded. Secondly, without ecomic progress a country can not attract substantial amount of foreign capital and investment in order to develop other areas, such as environment, politics and society.
On the other hand, some people advocate their view that areas, such as sport, tourism, energy security, transport systems demands a lot of investments as these ways have equal potential as well as economic progress. First of all, nowadays sport and tourism plays a crucial role on appealing foreign capital in developed countries such as Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar. In these countries sport and tourism serve as a catalyst for contributing activity of financial institutions, government and green development. For these reasons above, increasing of attention for all socio-economic sectors all in all will lead to great results.
In conclusion, while economic progress may be seen as a milestone for developing each nations, other lines of progress, such as transport, alternative energy and tourism surely rise level of countries on the global stage.