It's all subjective if course, but I didn't equate them, I added the word "positive" as a qualifier in the hope the extra adjective would help disambiguation.

It's all subjective if course, but I didn't equate them, I added the word "positive" as a qualifier in the hope the extra adjective would help disambiguation. Of course not all progress is positive so I was narrowing the scope of the word to limit it to only progressive initiatives that benefit a majority of constituents (in particular, in this example, an absent majority)