I've been doing that, and I've still got 37 growth.
I'm going to stick to what destroyer said and stay at plentiful
sadly all good growth removers are unavailable to commies
most efficient would be to privatize until you are at mixed (which probably takes only one time) and minimum wage down back to command economy
also if you get army sizes of 140k or so your growth will stop due to big troop counts
destroyer of black recruit people we're getting weaker and weaker
i try to recruit everyone in west africa already
what we need is more forums and already established communities we can draw into the game but alas i am not part of any