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- [Podcast: Beyond Growth: Can We End Poverty Without GDP?](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/podcast-beyond-growth-can-we-end-poverty-without-gdp/) - Olivier De Schutter joined the EQUALS podcast with hosts Max Lawson and Annie Theriault in a two-part series to unpack assumptions in economics. Drawing from his experience as UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights and the collaborative work of the Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth, Olivier explains how post-growth can address
- [Podcast: Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/podcast-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/) -  In an episode of the Economics for Rebels podcast, Alexandra Köves welcomes Olivier De Schutter to discuss how he came to question the hegemony of growth as UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. They dive into the Roadmap pillar by pillar, exploring how the policy measures contained within help shift the
- [Podcast: How to fight again poverty and inequalities?](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/podcast-how-to-fight-again-poverty-and-inequalities/) - https://youtu.be/VBVjcBi6Vvs?si=i-mgA8e1pimBK2EU Public Eye invited New Economies Eradicating Poverty Chair, Olivier De Schutter, to talk about the reasons why poverty persists. Contrary to dominant thinking, they discuss how economic growth as a poverty eradication strategy has failed, leading to deepening inequalities and worsening the environmental crisis. De Schutter elaborates the system change needed to move away
- [Podcast: Olivier De Schutter on why the economy creates poverty - and how to fix it.](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/podcast-olivier-de-schutter-on-why-the-economy-creates-poverty-and-how-to-fix-it/) - During the Wellbeing Economic Forum in Iceland, Olivier De Schutter sat down with Better Future Podcast host, Michael Mezzatesta, to discuss the inequalities built into the global economic system and the tools to repair them. Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Read the Substack
- [Interview: The social and solidarity economy: a lever for combating poverty beyond growth](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/interview-the-social-and-solidarity-economy-a-lever-for-combating-poverty-beyond-growth/) - L’actu ES 17 mars 2026 Comment lutter contre la pauvreté dans un contexte de crises sociales, environnementales et de croissance économique incertaine ? Dans un policy brief publié avec l’UNTFSSE (Groupe de travail interinstitutions des Nations Unies sur l’économie sociale et solidaire) et la Coalition mondiale pour la justice sociale, Olivier De Schutter, Rapporteur spécial
- [Press release: UN-backed roadmap provides blueprint for eradicating poverty beyond growth: UN expert](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/press-release-un-backed-roadmap-provides-blueprint-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth-un-expert/) - A UN expert today called for a major overhaul of global development, unveiling a new roadmap designed to end poverty without pushing the planet beyond its limits.
- [The New Economic Times...Wednesday 1 April 2026](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/the-new-economic-times-wednesday-1-april-2026/) - Today's front page...Job guarantees transforming labour markets. Polluters paying for climate and social justice. Governments rejecting GDP as a measure of progress. Debt cancellation allowing countries to invest in education. Conversations happening around the world on an extreme wealth line, reductions in working time and policies fit for future generations.
- [Interview: Global economy must stop pandering to ‘frivolous desires of ultra-rich’, says UN expert](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/interview-global-economy-must-stop-pandering-to-frivolous-desires-of-ultra-rich-says-un-expert/) - Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse.
- [Special Rapporteur joins UNTFSSE and ILO-led Global Coalition for Social Justice to launch joint policy brief on the social and solidarity economy](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/sse/) - The new joint policy brief offers a deep dive into the ways in which the social and solidarity economy can advance the objectives of the Roadmap by supporting the eradication of poverty beyond growth.
- [Opinion: Economic Growth at Any Cost Fails Us All](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/opinion-economic-growth-at-any-cost-fails-us-all/) - Last week, powerful politicians and business leaders gathered in Davos, promising to “unlock new sources of growth” to solve the world’s many crises. Poverty, climate breakdown, and political instability – all, we were told, can be fixed if only we grow our economies a little faster.
- [Opinion: Eradicating poverty: growth is not the answer](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/opinion-eradicating-poverty-growth-is-not-the-answer/) - Economic growth was long seen as the surest route to poverty eradication. That wisdom has since been dispelled. In its place, an emphasis on securing society-wide equality and wellbeing has emerged, but policymakers have yet to catch up.
- [Video podcast: Beyond growth: a new approach to combatting global poverty](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/idep2025/) - On the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (17 October 2025), the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, challenges the status quo — exposing why traditional anti-poverty strategies reliant on economic growth fall short, and what bold new solutions are needed to truly end poverty for good.
- [Interview: Extreme poverty and economic growth with Olivier De Schutter](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/interview-extreme-poverty-and-economic-growth-with-olivier-de-schutter/) - How can we continue to fund education, health, and welfare while considering the planet’s limitations? And what role will taxes and tax system reforms play in a growth-free future?
- [Interview: Beyond Growth: Why the focus should be on reducing inequality instead of GDP](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/euronews/) - Euronews Correspondent Sasha Vakulina and a panel of top policymakers and experts discuss how financial well-being, rising inequality and the cost-of-living crisis might be better tackled outside of standardised GDP outlooks, ahead of the Beyond Growth 2023 Conference.
- [Opinion: Economic growth is not a magic wand for ending poverty](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/the-guardian/) - A new report from the Center for Global Development claims extreme poverty may be eradicated by 2050 thanks to economic growth in low-income countries. However, a cause for celebration, this is not.
- [Opinion: Time to set a limit on extreme wealth](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/d-and-c/) - In the five years since taking up my role as the United Nation’s poverty expert, the world’s five richest men have seen their net worth rocket from an already absurd US $ 340 billion to a frankly sickening $ 1.1 trillion. This, while the wealth of almost five billion people has fallen over the same period.
- [Interview: “Taxing the super-rich would make it possible to fund social protection for over 800 million people”](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/la-libre/) - The situation is as clear as it is grim. Climate crises are multiplying, calls for international assistance are surging, and international solidarity is dwindling. In light of this, can we say today that humanitarian aid as we have known it is no longer sufficient?
- [Opinion: Let’s stop pretending economic growth will end poverty](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/el-mundo/) - For close to six years, I have been tasked by the United Nations to report back on the world’s most promising solutions to ending poverty. Today I can confidently say that – despite what we’ve been led to believe by politicians, economists, development experts, and even UN institutions – the answer is not to simply stimulate economic growth.
- [Interview: Olivier de Schutter: “A 2% tax on billionaires would provide social protection for 820 million people in low-income countries”](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/el-pais/) - Olivier de Schutter, 57, thinks it possible for the over 800 million people who, according to the United Nations, live on less than $2.15 a day to improve their living conditions.
- [Opinion: UN Rapporteur: “Economic growth will not end poverty”](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/globalnyt/) - The widely held belief that increasing economic growth will solve global poverty is wrong and leading the world down a dangerous path of spiralling inequalities and environmental breakdown.
- [Interview: “The belief that progress in GDP coincides with an improvement in people’s lives is simply not true”](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/interview-the-belief-that-progress-in-gdp-coincides-with-an-improvement-in-peoples-lives-is-simply-not-true/) - In this interview, Olivier De Schutter argues that GDP growth does not, contrary to what liberal orthodoxy claims, lift populations out of poverty. According to De Schutter, the time has come to radically rethink the fight against poverty.
- [Interview: Growth obsessed societies are fueling anxiety and depression](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/interview-growth-obsessed-societies-are-fueling-anxiety-and-depression/) - In this interview the UN special rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Olivier De Schutter, discusses his report “The burnout economy: poverty and mental health”.
- [Interview: The Poverty of Growth](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/interview/) - Obsession with growth is enriching elites and killing the planet. That’s the message of this week’s guest, Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights and author of The Poverty of Growth.
- [Press release: Growth-obsessed economy creating ‘unseen mental health crisis’ for people in poverty: UN expert](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/press-release-growth-obsessed-economy-creating-unseen-mental-health-crisis-for-people-in-poverty-un-expert/) - Government policies designed to drive economic growth are taking a devastating toll on the mental health of people in poverty, according to a new report by the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter.
- [Opinion: We reject the idea that we need to choose between fighting poverty and respecting planetary limits](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/opinion-we-reject-the-idea-that-we-need-to-choose-between-fighting-poverty-and-respecting-planetary-limits/) - Policymakers themselves are finally beginning to grasp the challenge. Two signs, among others: the attention given to a report presented at the UN on "eradicating poverty beyond growth,” and the commitment of governments, enshrined in the pact adopted at the Summit for the Future held in New York on September 22–23, to use progress indicators that go beyond GDP.
- [Opinion: Going beyond growth – a key step in battle against poverty](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/opinion-going-beyond-growth-a-key-step-in-battle-against-poverty/) - Buried deep in the Pact for the Future – a global declaration to be agreed by heads of state and government meeting at the U.N. in New York this weekend – is a pledge that, if realised, could represent one of the greatest shifts in the way we address global poverty.
- [Interview: The social economy, a driving force behind an inclusive post-growth society](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/interview-the-social-economy-a-driving-force-behind-an-inclusive-post-growth-society/) - "I think there is a real anthropological problem underlying our behaviors," explains Olivier De Schutter, United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and extreme poverty since 2020.
- [Opinion: Human rights, not gross domestic product, must be our guiding star](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/opinion-human-rights-not-gross-domestic-product-must-be-our-guiding-star/) - The global economy, fuelled by the pursuit of growth, is hurtling us towards climate collapse. Yet even with the fires, floods and other environmental alarm bells, our approach to poverty eradication remains much the same: grow the economy first, then redistribute the wealth through social policies at home, or official development assistance overseas.
- [Interview: Dispelling the myth that growth will eradicate poverty](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/interview-dispelling-the-myth-that-growth-will-eradicate-poverty/) - Olivier De Schutter, a specialist in poverty and social rights, argues that growth has become counterproductive. To confront the challenges ahead - both nationally and internationally - he believes the answer is obvious: we must stop seeking GDP growth, and we must even stop using it as a measure of economic well-being.
- [Interview: The urgent need to build a post-growth society, with Olivier De Schutter](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/interview-the-urgent-need-to-build-a-post-growth-society-with-olivier-de-schutter/) - Legal scholar and expert on economic and social rights Olivier De Schutter issues a warning: growth will not resolve inequalities or the multiple environmental crises. On the contrary, it will only make them worse.
- [Interview: UN’s Olivier De Schutter on why the world should stop constantly pursuing growth](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/uns-olivier-de-schutter-on-why-the-world-should-stop-constantly-pursuing-growth/) - The world should abandon its constant race for economic growth. That's the idea behind a new book written by the UN's Special Rapporteur on human rights and extreme poverty.
- [Interview: Olivier de Schutter proposes a paradigm shift](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/interview-olivier-de-schutter-proposes-a-paradigm-shift/) - Olivier de Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, proposes a paradigm shift.
- [Video: Reset the Quest for GDP Growth at All Costs, Anti-Poverty Expert Tells Human Rights Council](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/video-reset-the-quest-for-gdp-growth-at-all-costs-anti-poverty-expert-tells-human-rights-council/) - Olivier De Schutter presents his report on "Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth" to the UN Human Rights Council
- [Interview: Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth with Olivier De Schutter](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/interview-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth-with-olivier-de-schutter/) - In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Olivier De Schutter, a Belgian legal scholar specialising in economic and social rights. The discussion today focuses on his recent submission to the UN Human Rights Council on eradicating poverty beyond growth.
- [Press release: End dangerous fixation with GDP as way to eradicate global poverty: UN expert](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/press-release-end-dangerous-fixation-with-gdp-as-way-to-eradicate-global-poverty-un-expert/) - The widely held belief that increasing economic growth will solve global poverty is wrong and leading the world down a dangerous path, the UN’s independent expert on poverty warned today.
- [Interview: The Poverty of Growth with Olivier De Schutter](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/interview-the-poverty-of-growth-with-olivier-de-schutter/) - On today’s episode James Meadway is joined by Olivier De Schutter to discuss his new book The Poverty of Growth – a concise and well evidenced argument against the idea that economic growth is the route out of poverty.
- [Interview: Why growth creates poverty](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/interview-why-growth-creates-poverty/) - How is it that, despite unprecedented economic growth both globally and nationally, so many people still live below the poverty line and can barely meet their basic needs?
- [Interview: Growth will never eradicate poverty](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/interview-growth-will-never-eradicate-poverty/) - In an interview with RFI, Olivier De Schutter calls on governments to break free from the myth that creating more wealth is the answer to combatting global poverty.
- [Interview: Why economic growth will not end poverty](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/why-economic-growth-will-not-end-poverty/) - Not only will growth fail to resolve inequalities or the multiple environmental crises—it will, on the contrary, only make them worse. This is what Olivier De Schutter demonstrates in his book.
- [Interview: Olivier De Schutter: “Economic growth is exhausting people and the planet”](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/interview-olivier-de-schutter-economic-growth-is-exhausting-people-and-the-planet/) - For Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and extreme poverty, our advanced countries produce enough wealth; the challenge is to distribute it more fairly.
- [Interview: No, growth will never eradicate poverty](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/interview-no-growth-will-never-eradicate-poverty/) - Olivier De Schutter, is convinced that growth will never defeat poverty—indeed, quite the opposite. Starting from this reversal of conventional wisdom, he sets out to expose the emptiness of our current public policies.
- [Letter: A post-growth Europe critical to survive and thrive, urge over 400 civil society groups and experts](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/letter-a-post-growth-europe-critical-to-survive-and-thrive-urge-over-400-civil-society-groups-and-experts/) - As political leaders gather for a second conference at the European Parliament on how to move “beyond growth”, we, the undersigned academics and civil society organisations, see the geopolitical crisis as an opportunity to disengage from the socially and ecologically harmful growth competition and instead embrace a wellbeing cooperation.
- [Opinion: Obsession with growth is enriching elites and killing the planet. We need an economy based on human rights](https://www.neep-poverty.org/news/opinion-obsession-with-growth-is-enriching-elites-and-killing-the-planet-we-need-an-economy-based-on-human-rights/) - Economic growth will bring prosperity to all. This is the mantra that guides the decision-making of the vast majority of politicians, economists and even human rights bodies.

## Pages

- [Home](https://www.neep-poverty.org/) - New Economies for Eradicating Poverty (NEEP) is an initiative led by the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, to move the world away from destructive economic growth and towards systems that can end poverty on a liveable planet.
- [Sign your name in support of the Roadmap](https://www.neep-poverty.org/sign-your-name-in-support-of-the-roadmap/) - READ THE OP-ED IN THE GUARDIAN LIRE DANS LE MONDE LEER EN EL PAÍS The opinion piece was written by Olivier De Schutter, former UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, together with François Denuit and Praachi Khera, Co-Directors of New Economies for Eradicating Poverty (NEEP) and is supported by more than 1,300
- [4.9 Democratic governance of energy transition minerals](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/climate-environment-and-resources/energy-transition-minerals-governance/) - This policy manages the social and environmental risks of mining minerals essential to the energy transition by setting regional fiscal and social standards, ensuring Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) of Indigenous peoples and local communities, preventing conflict and abuse, and promoting local value addition.
- [5.2 Curbing the dominance of private credit ratings agencies through multilateral credit rating](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/trade-finance-debt-and-global-solidarity/curbing-the-dominance-of-private-credit-ratings-agencies-through-multilateral-credit-rating/) - This policy calls for establishing a public, multilateral credit rating mechanism to replace the dominance of private agencies whose ratings exert disproportionate control over global finance and sovereign economic policy.
- [5.3 Clearing Integrated Monetary Area (CIMA)](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/5-12-democratisation-of-international-financial-institutions-and-removal-of-structural-adjustment-programmes-as-a-condition-for-multilateral-finance/) - This policy calls for a fundamental transformation of global economic governance by democratizing international financial institutions and abolishing structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) as conditions for access to multilateral finance.
- [1.9 Luxury Carbon Taxation](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/taxing-luxury-commodities/) - Add text here
- [Roadmap](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/)
- [4.8 Agroecology and food sovereignty](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/climate-environment-and-resources/agroecology-and-food-sovereignty/) - This policy transforms food systems to prioritize health, equity, and resilience by promoting agroecology, diversified local production, and equitable food environments.
- [1.18 Supporting Purpose-Driven and Mission-Oriented Enterprises](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/supporting-purpose-driven-and-mission-oriented-enterprises/) - In a human rights economy, shifting fiduciary duties and supporting mission-oriented enterprises ensures that corporate decision-making contributes to equitable distribution and long-term social and environmental stability rather than perpetuating extractive accumulation.
- [3.6 Universal access to clean energy](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/access-to-social-protection-and-services/universal-access-to-clean-energy/) - In a post-growth framework, universal energy access must be understood not as expanding unlimited consumption, but as guaranteeing sufficient, reliable and clean energy to meet essential needs within planetary boundaries.
- [5.9 Democratisation of intellectual property regimes, technology sharing, and establishing knowledge commons](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/trade-finance-debt-and-global-solidarity/technology-sharing-and-knowledge-commons/) - This policy creates frameworks for South-led technology cooperation and open knowledge commons to bypass restrictive intellectual property regimes. Its design includes patent pools, South–South R&D consortia, open-access platforms, and collective negotiation of TRIPS flexibilities to expand access to pharmaceuticals, green technologies, and digital tools.
- [5.10 Ending Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/trade-finance-debt-and-global-solidarity/ending-investor-state-dispute-settlement/) - This policy seeks to remove investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) provisions that constrain governments from regulating in the public interest and replace them with state-to-state dispute settlement or narrowly scoped public courts.
- [6.10 Universal Access to Accurate, Pluralistic, and Independent Information](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/adaptive-governance-and-participatory-decision-making/universal-access-to-accurate-pluralistic-and-independent-information/) - By treating information as a public good rather than a commodity, this policy strengthens democratic equality and redistributes communicative power away from concentrated wealth and opaque technological systems.
- [5.5 Expanded Allocations of Special Drawing Rights](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/trade-finance-debt-and-global-solidarity/special-drawing-rights-allocations/) - By allocating Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) according to population or need instead of IMF quotas, expanded SDRs could close a substantial share of the social protection financing gap in low-income countries, without relying on economic growth as a precondition.
- [1.8 Taxation of Resource Use and Environmental Harm](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/taxation-of-resource-use-and-environmental-harm/) - Taxation of resource use and environmental harm aligns fiscal systems with environmental justice by ensuring that those most responsible for pollution contribute proportionately to mitigation, adaptation, and remediation.
- [6.13 Reforming and Decolonising of Economics Education](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/adaptive-governance-and-participatory-decision-making/reforming-and-decolonising-of-economics-education/) - This policy seeks to transform economics education by moving away from its near-exclusive focus on neoclassical theories and equilibrium models, which reinforce growth-dependence and ignore the social and ecological dimensions of development.
- [6.12 Community Bargaining Power](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/adaptive-governance-and-participatory-decision-making/community-bargaining-power/) - This policy proposal aims to democratise negotiations across the economy so that people can organize around the major levers of power, not just their labour.
- [3.8 Universal digital connectivity and access](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/universal-digital-connectivity-and-access/) - By treating connectivity as a capability-enhancing public good rather than a commercial luxury, States can ensure that digital transformation expands economic freedoms and social participation while reducing structural inequalities rather than deepening them.
- [Transforming the international economic order](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/trade-finance-debt-and-global-solidarity/) - This pillar explores the interdependencies of global trade, finance, and debt, underlining the need for solidarity to address inequality and persistent neocolonial structures.
- [1.17 Competition Policy as Countervailing Power](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/competition-policy-as-countervailing-power/) - This proposal aims to shift the focus of anti-monopoly initiatives toward reconfiguring the legal and financial architectures that, by design, concentrate market power in the hands of a few.
- [Ecological justice](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/climate-environment-and-resources/) - This pillar examines the interconnected social and ecological dimensions of sustainability, focusing on the disproportionate impacts of climate change and resource depletion on poor and marginalised groups.
- [Universal basic services and social protection](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/access-to-social-protection-and-services/) - This pillar focuses on ensuring that every individual has access to essential services, income support, and social protection.
- [Labour, care and economic democracy](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/labour-policies-and-the-care-economy/) - This pillar covers the world of work in its entirety, including measures to address casualization, precariousness, and poor working conditions; the promotion of green jobs, job guarantees, fair wages, and workplace democracy.
- [Transforming economic systems](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/)
- [2.12 Universal Care Income](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/labour-policies-and-the-care-economy/universal-care-income/) - Embedded within a wider care-centred policy framework, UCI offers a pathway toward poverty eradication and social protection that recognises the foundational role of care in sustaining both society and the planet.
- [6.11 Democratic governance of digital and AI systems](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/adaptive-governance-and-participatory-decision-making/democratic-governance-of-digital-and-ai-systems/) - This policy establishes democratic, transparent, and rights-based oversight of artificial intelligence and algorithmic systems to prevent social harms and ensure technology serves public wellbeing.
- [5.4 Global Fund for Social Protection (GFSP)](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/trade-finance-debt-and-global-solidarity/global-fund-for-social-protection-gfsp/) - A Global Fund for Social Protection would provide predictable, rights-based financing to support universal social protection floors.
- [3.9 Universal social protection](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/access-to-social-protection-and-services/building-social-ecological-security-systems/) - Universal social protection is a precondition for eradicating poverty and realizing human rights, beyond growth imperatives. Access to social protection ensures that individuals can meet their basic needs and maintain a minimum standard of living throughout their life course, whether faced with idiosyncratic social risks or large-scale crises.
- [2.9 Workplace democracy](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/labour-policies-and-the-care-economy/workplace-democracy/) - By redistributing power within firms, workplace democracy strengthens economic citizenship, enhances resilience during transitions, and contributes to poverty eradication beyond growth by ensuring that economic decisions serve human wellbeing rather than narrow shareholder interests.
- [3.4 Universal access to housing](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/access-to-social-protection-and-services/universal-access-to-housing/) - Universal access to adequate housing responds to a deepening global housing crisis in which over a billion people lack safe, secure and dignified housing, and many more face eviction, unaffordable rents, overcrowding, or energy poverty.
- [4.4 Promotion of Circular Economy](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/climate-environment-and-resources/promotion-of-circular-economy/) - Circular economy policies contribute to poverty eradication beyond growth by protecting rights, strengthening local resilience, and aligning material systems with ecological limits and human wellbeing.
- [4.5 Community governance of the commons](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/climate-environment-and-resources/community-governance-of-the-commons/) - This policy proposal begins from the premise that the commons belong to the people who live with them, care for them, and depend on them, and it aims to protect communities’ rights over land, water, forests, and fisheries through free, prior and informed consent (FPIC), secure tenure, and community-based management.
- [5.1 Sovereign debt cancellation and Global South debtors' coalition](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/trade-finance-debt-and-global-solidarity/sovereign-debt-cancellation-and-southern-led-debtors-clubs/) - Each year, countries in the Global South transfer more than $300 billion in interest payments on external debt, with many governments spending more on servicing creditors than on healthcare or education.
- [5.6 A United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/trade-finance-debt-and-global-solidarity/un-framework-convention-on-international-tax-cooperation/) - This policy advances a UN-led framework convention on tax cooperation to replace the OECD-led process and ensure equitable participation of developing countries.
- [4.7 Loss and damage fund 2.0](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/climate-environment-and-resources/loss-and-damage-fund/) - This policy proposal seeks to redesign the thinking around Loss and Damage as a model for mobilising international commitments to global climate resilience by establishing predictable contributions from high-emitting states based on responsibility and capacity, delivered primarily as non-debt-creating grants through simplified allocation formulas linked to vulnerability indicators and disaster triggers.
- [1.16 Nationalisation of Pension Funds](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/nationalisation-of-pension-funds/) - Properly designed public pension systems strengthen intergenerational solidarity, reduce inequality, and secure income security in old age as a human right insulated from financial market volatility.
- [1.15 Reorienting Financial Regulation](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/reorientation-of-private-for-profit-finance/) - By curbing speculative excess and limiting funding for destructive sectors, financial reorientation reduces systemic instability and weakens the dominance of profit maximisation in economic organisation.
- [1.5 Minimum Corporate Tax](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/minimum-corporate-tax/) - Without effective corporate taxation, poverty eradication becomes dependent on regressive taxation or perpetual GDP expansion.
- [4.10 Redistribution and Equitable Governance of Land](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/climate-environment-and-resources/4-10-land-ceilings-and-redistribution/)
- [4.6 Affirming rights of nature and biodiversity protection](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/climate-environment-and-resources/affirming-rights-of-nature-and-biodiversity-protection/) - This policy safeguards ecosystems critical for human survival by expanding protected and conserved areas — including Indigenous and community-conserved areas — restoring degraded landscapes, and legally recognizing the rights of nature where appropriate.
- [5.11 Ending the use of unilateral sanctions](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/trade-finance-debt-and-global-solidarity/ending-the-use-of-unilateral-sanctions/) - This policy calls for the abolition of unilateral coercive measures as tools of international economic governance, recognizing them as incompatible with the principles of sovereignty, equality, and human rights.
- [4.3 Right to repair and anti-obsolescence](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/climate-environment-and-resources/right-to-repair-and-anti-obsolescence/) - This policy ensures that consumers — particularly low-income households — can maintain and repair goods affordably by mandating repairability, spare parts availability, and minimum software support lifetimes for consumer products, while outlawing planned obsolescence.
- [4.2 Rationing luxury commodities](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/climate-environment-and-resources/taxing-and-rationing-luxury-commodities/) - This policy seeks to curb ecologically destructive and socially wasteful overconsumption by the world’s richest households through a dual strategy of taxation and rationing of luxury commodities and services.
- [3.5 Universal Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH)](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/access-to-social-protection-and-services/universal-water-sanitation-and-hygiene-wash/) - Ensuring universal access to WASH requires recognising water and sanitation as human rights and public goods rather than commodities.
- [3.3 Universal access to health coverage](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/access-to-social-protection-and-services/universal-access-to-health-coverage/) - Universal health coverage (UHC) seeks to guarantee that all individuals can access a comprehensive continuum of essential, quality health services — preventive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative — without financial hardship.
- [3.2 Universal access to nutritious food](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/access-to-social-protection-and-services/universal-access-to-nutritious-food/) - Universal access to nutritious food guarantees the right to sufficient, adequate, nutritious and culturally appropriate food for all, at all times, through publicly supported and ecologically sustainable systems.
- [3.0 Universal Basic Services](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/access-to-social-protection-and-services/3-0-universal-basic-services/)
- [2.6 Inclusive labour policies](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/labour-policies-and-the-care-economy/inclusive-labour-policies-gender-responsive-disability-justice-migrant-workers-rights/) - A human rights economy requires that inclusion be treated as a structural principle of labour market design rather than a corrective measure.
- [2.5 Protecting informal workers and encouraging transition from informal to formal work](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/labour-policies-and-the-care-economy/protecting-informal-workers-and-encouraging-transition-from-informal-to-formal-work/) - By recognising and valuing the economic contribution of informal work — particularly in care, repair, recycling and local food systems — States can design labour policies that reduce working poverty and enhance social protection floors, ensuring that transitions to formality improve rights and security rather than simply extending taxation and regulation.
- [2.3 Working Time Reduction](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/labour-policies-and-the-care-economy/reduction-in-working-time/) - When embedded in broader labour market and social protection reforms, working time reduction becomes a structural lever for poverty eradication beyond growth: improving wellbeing, sharing paid work more equitably, and aligning economic activity with social and ecological limits.
- [2.1 Employment Guarantee](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/labour-policies-and-the-care-economy/employment-guarantee/) - When designed as voluntary, rights-based and locally participatory, the employment guarantee contributes to a just transition by channeling labour toward socially and ecologically necessary activities, strengthening resilience and aligning full employment with human dignity and long-term sustainability.
- [1.19 Institutional Frameworks for Social and Solidarity Economies](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/legal-frameworks-for-social-and-solidarity-economies/) - By legally institutionalising enterprises that restrict wealth accumulation, discourage short-term speculation and reinvest surpluses for collective benefit, governments recognise the SSE as a structural component of a human rights economy.
- [1.21 Intergenerational Public Procurement](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/intergenerational-public-procurement/) - By steering substantial public purchasing power toward socially useful, locally embedded and ecologically sustainable activities, intergenerational procurement addresses structural poverty at its roots.
- [1.20 Cooperative and Public Infrastructure for the Social and Solidarity Economy](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/public-and-cooperative-financial-infrastructure-for-the-sse/) - Developing dedicated public and cooperative financial infrastructure provides the “patient capital” required for SSE entities to operate at scale without compromising their governance model or social mission.
- [1.13 Binding Credit Steering of Private Investment](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/binding-credit-steering-of-private-investment/) - By redirecting finance away from environmentally destructive and socially unnecessary activities and toward essential provisioning, binding credit steering helps realign production with social needs and ecological limits.
- [1.11 Public Monetary Financing for Social and Ecological Investment](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/public-monetary-financing-for-social-and-ecological-investment/) - When embedded in robust public investment management systems and sound macroeconomic governance, public monetary financing broadens fiscal space for poverty reduction, universal services, and climate resilience without excessive reliance on volatile private capital flows.
- [6.2 Protecting the Integrity of Democratic Decision-Making](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/adaptive-governance-and-participatory-decision-making/protecting-the-integrity-of-democratic-decision-making/) - This policy seeks to dismantle the political power of corporations that undermine democratic decision-making and lead to ignore ecological limits.
- [1.7 Digital Tax](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/digital-tax/) - By ensuring that the monetisation of user data and digital infrastructure contributes to the public purse, digital tax reform strengthens fiscal capacity for social protection, digital inclusion, and poverty reduction.
- [1.3 Inheritance and Gift Caps](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/inheritance-tax/) - In a post-growth framework, high inheritance taxation recirculates accumulated wealth into the public domain, strengthens democratic equality, and contributes to poverty eradication by ensuring that economic advantage is not permanently locked into family lineage but redistributed in support of collective wellbeing.
- [1.1 Extreme wealth line](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/extreme-wealth-line/) - An extreme wealth line (EWL) functions as a governance benchmark: a policy-relevant reference point that enables governments to identify, assess, and respond to extreme wealth concentration as a systemic governance risk whose scale and effects warrant monitoring and policy action.
- [6.3 Future Generations Planning](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/adaptive-governance-and-participatory-decision-making/future-generations-planning/) - This policy seeks to transform the structures, incentives, and governance models that lock societies into growth-dependent priorities at the expense of long-term social and ecological wellbeing.
- [1.12 Favouring public, municipal and cooperative ownership of strategic assets in the low-carbon transition](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/public-and-democratic-stewardship-of-strategic-sectors/) - Public and democratic stewardship establishes structured criteria for identifying strategic sectors — natural monopolies, essential services, and system-critical infrastructures — and places them under forms of public, cooperative, or community ownership.
- [5.8 South–South trade and investment compacts and payment systems](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/trade-finance-debt-and-global-solidarity/south-south-trade-and-investment-compacts-and-payment-systems/) - This policy expands South–South cooperation by developing preferential trade agreements, joint industrial strategies, and pooled investment in care, green, and digital sectors, while creating interoperable South–South and regional payment systems to reduce reliance on the US dollar and costly correspondent banking.
- [5.7 A Binding Covenant on the Right to Development](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/trade-finance-debt-and-global-solidarity/binding-right-to-development-treaty/) - This policy calls for the adoption of a Binding Right to Development Treaty that secures equitable access to the conditions necessary for social, economic, and ecological self‑determination.
- [2.11 Investing in care](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/labour-policies-and-the-care-economy/investing-in-care/) - A robust public care system directly reduces poverty by strengthening income security, lowering household costs, and creating decent, low-carbon jobs.
- [2.10 Valuing work beyond economic growth](https://www.neep-poverty.org/valuing-socially-useful-work/) - Valuing socially useful work requires actively reorienting labour demand and public investment toward sectors that both reduce ecological pressures and advance human rights.
- [2.4 Platform Worker Protections](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/labour-policies-and-the-care-economy/platform-and-gig-worker-protections/) - By reshaping digital markets to prioritise fair distribution of value rather than rapid scale and investor returns, States can ensure that technological innovation strengthens income stability and reduces working poverty instead of intensifying precarious, growth-driven competition.
- [2.2 Fair and Living Wages](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/labour-policies-and-the-care-economy/fair-and-living-wages/) - This policy aims to guarantee both a living wage and a fair remuneration in line with international human rights standards.
- [2.8 Strengthening labour rights and fair working conditions in supply chains](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/strengthening-labour-rights-and-fair-working-conditions-in-supply-chains/) - Ensuring fair working conditions in supply chains is essential for eradicating poverty beyond growth. It raises wage floors, reduces exploitation and shifts value distribution toward workers without relying solely on increased output.
- [1.2 Wealth Tax](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/wealth-tax/) - Wealth taxation encompasses a range of instruments — including taxes on capital income, taxes on wealth transfers (estate, inheritance and gift taxes), and recurrent taxes on the stock of wealth itself, such as net wealth taxes.
- [1.6 Excess Profit Taxes](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/windfall-profit-tax/) - In a human rights economy, windfall taxation ensures that crisis-driven wealth is recirculated to protect livelihoods.
- [6.1 National Anti-Poverty Strategies](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/adaptive-governance-and-participatory-decision-making/national-anti-poverty-strategies/) - This proposal offers a different vision for organizing our economy, beyond the neoliberal state, and calls for ecological planning in which governments adopt multi-year national action to identify key goals for the economy, guided by deliberative practices that give voice to concerns of workers, communities, women, gender non-conforming people, racial and caste-based minorities.
- [6.9 Institutionalising Participatory Social Audits and Community Monitoring](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/adaptive-governance-and-participatory-decision-making/institutionalise-participatory-social-audits-and-community-monitoring/) - This policy proposes institutionalising participatory accountability mechanisms such as social audits and community monitoring across all key public programmes.
- [6.7 Wellbeing and Participatory Budgeting](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/adaptive-governance-and-participatory-decision-making/wellbeing-and-participatory-budgeting/) - This proposal seeks to direct public spending towards urgent, necessary, and democratically determined needs.
- [2.7 Freedom of association and collective bargaining](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/labour-policies-and-the-care-economy/freedom-of-association-and-collective-bargaining/) - Robust collective bargaining systems are a cornerstone of poverty eradication beyond growth. They raise wage floors, compress wage inequalities and improve working conditions without relying solely on aggregate economic expansion.
- [4.1 Caps on resource use, emissions, and pollution](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/climate-environment-and-resources/caps-on-resource-use-emissions-and-pollution/) - This policy proposes that governments and international mechanisms establish caps on total resource extraction, greenhouse gas emissions, and toxic pollution, aligned with scientifically defined planetary boundaries and principles of equity.
- [3.1 Universal access to education](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/access-to-social-protection-and-services/universal-access-to-education/) - Universal access to education seeks to guarantee equitable, inclusive and high-quality learning opportunities for all, from early childhood through tertiary and lifelong education.
- [3.7 Affordable and accessible public transportation](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/access-to-social-protection-and-services/affordable-and-accessible-public-transportation/) - Expanding public transportation is a structural lever for poverty eradication and ecological transition.
- [6.8 Citizens’ Assemblies with Binding Follow-Through](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/adaptive-governance-and-participatory-decision-making/citizens-assemblies-with-binding-follow-through/) - This policy proposes institutionalising citizens’ assemblies as formal mechanisms for public deliberation on key economic and ecological decisions.
- [6.6 Global Account Systems for Sustainable and Inclusive Wellbeing](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/adaptive-governance-and-participatory-decision-making/national-account-systems-for-sustainable-and-inclusive-wellbeing/) - This policy calls for reform of the System of National Accounts (SNA), with explicit reference to the 2025 revision (SNA 2025), to incorporate distributional accounts, environmental degradation, and unpaid labour.
- [6.5 Multidimensional Wellbeing Indicators](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/adaptive-governance-and-participatory-decision-making/multi-dimensional-wellbeing-indicators/) - This policy seeks to replace the dominance of GDP as the guiding compass for understanding the state of the economy, by focusing attention on multidimensional wellbeing indicators that better capture human development, equality, care, and ecological sustainability.
- [6.4 Democratising the Macroeconomic Modelling Toolbox](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/adaptive-governance-and-participatory-decision-making/democratising-the-macroeconomic-modelling-toolbox/) - This proposal envisions modelling as a public, deliberative practice rather than a technical exercise in which (1) the hierarchization of quantitative modelling as an ultimate arbiter of truth is challenged and the methodological and ideological grounding of different modelling traditions is understood clearly; (2) modelling becomes a space for dialogue where academics, civil society actors, and communities collectively explore policy scenarios and negotiate priorities for wellbeing, equity, and ecological justice; and (3) a pluralistic toolkit of models including post-growth models is promoted.
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- [1.10 Central Bank Mandates for Social and Ecological Objectives](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/central-bank-mandates-for-social-and-ecological-objectives/) - Aligning central bank mandates with social and ecological objectives recognises that price and financial stability cannot be safeguarded without addressing the destabilising effects of climate and inequality.
- [3.12 Universal basic income](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/access-to-social-protection-and-services/universal-basic-income/) - A Universal Basic Income (UBI) establishes a periodic, unconditional cash payment delivered to all individuals without means-testing or work requirements.
- [5.12 Advancing a Unified Disarmament Agenda](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/trade-finance-debt-and-global-solidarity/unified-disarmament-agenda/) - This policy advances a comprehensive and unified global disarmament agenda that addresses the full spectrum of militarism — conventional, nuclear, and emerging technological weapons — as a prerequisite for redirecting resources toward economic wellbeing, ecological regeneration, and democratic development.
- [3.11 Universal childcare benefits](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/access-to-social-protection-and-services/universal-childcare-benefits/) - Universal child benefits are a cornerstone of a strategy to break intergenerational cycles of poverty. By guaranteeing income security during childhood, they reduce material deprivation and provide families with the stability necessary to invest in children’s development.
- [3.10 Minimum income guarantees](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/access-to-social-protection-and-services/income-security-guarantees/) - Minimum income guarantees aim to ensure that no individual falls below a socially defined income floor, thereby preventing extreme deprivation and reducing insecurity across the life course.
- [1.14 Public Spending for Social and Ecological Priorities](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/public-spending-for-social-and-ecological-priorities/) - Redirecting public expenditure away from harmful subsidies toward social and ecological priorities is a central lever for poverty eradication and structural transformation.
- [1.4 Maximum income schemes](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/maximum-income-schemes/) - In a human rights economy, maximum income schemes affirm that poverty eradication depends not on limitless upward accumulation, but on establishing fair and enforceable boundaries to income concentration within society.
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- [Protection and empowerment of whistle-blowers](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/adaptive-governance-and-participatory-decision-making/protection-and-empowerment-of-whistle-blowers/) - This policy establishes strong legal and institutional safeguards for individuals who disclose wrongdoing, corruption, human rights violations, or environmental and labour abuses, particularly in contexts where vulnerable workers or communities lack power to speak out.
- [Regulating big tech and digital market power](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/regulating-big-tech-and-digital-market-power/) - This policy confronts the concentration of economic and political power held by dominant digital platforms, whose business models rely on data extraction, behavioural manipulation, and monopolistic control over digital infrastructures.
- [Technology for the public good](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/technology-for-the-public-good/) - This policy redefines the role of technology in economic development by shifting away from innovation models that prioritise productivity expansion, intellectual property rents, and growth-dependent commercialisation.
- [Regulating finance](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/regulating-finance/) - This policy seeks to reduce systemic risks and redirect capital away from short-term speculation toward productive investment in public goods.
- [Capacity building for post-growth governance](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/adaptive-governance-and-participatory-decision-making/capacity-building-for-post-growth-governance/) - This policy expands the public sector’s ability to act autonomously from growth imperatives and the profit-driven sector’s dominance.
- [Dismantling corporate capture and reclaiming economic democracy](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/adaptive-governance-and-participatory-decision-making/dismantling-corporate-capture-and-reclaiming-economic-democracy/) - This policy seeks to dismantle the political power of corporations that undermine democratic decision-making and lead to ignore ecological limits.
- [Tracking post growth work-related indicators](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/adaptive-governance-and-participatory-decision-making/tracking-post-growth-work-related-indicators/) - This policy proposes indicators that could more accurately capture workers’ wellbeing and the quality of employment.
- [Post-growth macroeconomic models](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/post-growth-macroeconomic-models/) - This policy calls for greater pluralism in macroeconomic modelling, moving beyond the reliance on Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) and Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models that continue to dominate in international institutions’ modelling toolboxes.
- [Embedding social purpose in corporate activity](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/embedding-social-purpose-in-corporate-activity/) - This policy requires companies to incorporate social and environmental objectives into their core governance structures, moving beyond shareholder primacy toward stakeholder accountability.
- [Social and solidarity economy](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/social-and-solidarity-economy/) - This policy expands the scale and visibility of the social and solidarity economy (SSE) — cooperatives, mutuals, associations, foundations, and solidarity-based enterprises — by creating enabling ecosystems that allow them to thrive alongside mainstream markets.
- [Collective power as public infrastructure](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/adaptive-governance-and-participatory-decision-making/collective-power-as-public-infrastructure/) - This policy aims to shift democratic participation from periodic voting to continuous, participatory governance by creating publicly financed infrastructures for organising, instead of treating collective power as a by-product of social movements.
- [Legal recognition and protection of collective organising](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/adaptive-governance-and-participatory-decision-making/legal-recognition-and-protection-of-collective-organizing/) - This policy calls for the legal recognition and protection of collective organising as a foundation of economic democracy.
- [Community-Led Surveys and Participatory Research](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/adaptive-governance-and-participatory-decision-making/community-led-surveys-and-participatory-research/) - This policy establishes institutional mechanisms that enable community-led data collection and participatory research as independent complements to official monitoring systems.
- [Democratic corporatism](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/adaptive-governance-and-participatory-decision-making/democratic-corporatism/) - This policy restructures decision-making at sectoral and national levels by embedding worker and community participation in strategic economic planning.
- [South–South cooperation and global democratisation of statistical systems](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/adaptive-governance-and-participatory-decision-making/south-south-cooperation-and-global-democratisation-of-statistical-systems/) - This policy calls for a new South–South cooperation framework among national statistical institutes (NSIs) to co-develop post-growth and wellbeing indicators grounded in diverse social realities, rather than importing models shaped by Global North economies.
- [Establishing and democratising National Statistical Systems for post-growth transitions](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/adaptive-governance-and-participatory-decision-making/establishing-and-democratising-national-statistical-systems-for-post-growth-transitions/) - This policy calls for transforming — and, where absent, establishing — NSIs as democratic public institutions that co-produce data with citizens, social partners, and local governments to guide a post-growth transition.
- [Regional and South–South payment systems](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/trade-finance-debt-and-global-solidarity/regional-and-south-south-payment-systems/) - This policy creates interoperable South–South and regional payment systems to reduce reliance on the US dollar and costly correspondent banking.
- [Revitalising the aims of the New International Economic Order](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/trade-finance-debt-and-global-solidarity/revitalising-the-aims-of-the-new-international-economic-order/) - This policy revives and updates the New International Economic Order (NIEO) framework for the 21st century, providing Southern countries with greater control over trade, finance, and development trajectories.
- [Combatting illicit financial flows and asset recovery](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/trade-finance-debt-and-global-solidarity/combatting-illicit-financial-flows-and-asset-recovery/) - This policy closes channels that enable tax evasion, corruption, and criminal proceeds to drain public resources, while ensuring stolen assets are returned for public use.
- [Revised UN Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/trade-finance-debt-and-global-solidarity/binding-right-to-development-and-revised-charter-of-economic-rights-and-duties-of-states/) - This policy calls for adoption of a new Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States, updated to reflect 21st-century realities of inequality, climate change, and digital governance.
- [Southern-led debtor clubs](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/trade-finance-debt-and-global-solidarity/southern-led-debtor-clubs/) - This policy empowers debtor nations to negotiate collectively with creditors, reducing asymmetries of power in sovereign debt governance.
- [Territorial development compacts](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/climate-environment-and-resources/territorial-development-compacts/) - This policy addresses regional inequalities and the exclusion of lagging territories by integrating social, economic, and ecological investments into comprehensive place-based development strategies.
- [Community resource governance and anti-land grabbing](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/climate-environment-and-resources/community-resource-governance-and-anti-land-grabbing/) - This policy protects communities’ rights over land, water, forests, and fisheries through free, prior and informed consent (FPIC), secure tenure, and community-based management.
- [Climate risks protection through insurance and social protection](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/access-to-social-protection-and-services/climate-risk-protection-through-insurance-and-social-protection/) - This policy builds multi-layered risk protection systems that shield households, farmers, and communities from the economic and social impacts of climate shocks.
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- [Subsidy realignment and tax enforcement](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/subsidy-realignment-and-tax-enforcement/) - This policy addresses the vast fiscal and ecological costs of regressive subsidies — particularly fossil fuel and broad consumption subsidies — that benefit wealthier groups and lock economies into unsustainable pathways.
- [New forms of taxation](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/new-forms-of-taxation/) - This policy introduces innovative taxes designed to address inequality, stabilise financial systems, and fund poverty eradication and sustainability measures.
- [Progressive tax systems](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/economic-systems-transformation/progressive-tax-systems/) - This policy strengthens equity in fiscal systems by taxing those with the greatest capacity to contribute, thereby expanding the fiscal space needed to finance rights-based services and transitions.
- [UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/trade-finance-debt-and-global-solidarity/un-treaty-on-business-and-human-rights/) - This policy introduces binding international regulation of multinational corporations (MNCs) to close governance gaps and prevent exploitative practices in global supply chains.
- [Operationalising the principles of common but differentiated responsibilities](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/climate-environment-and-resources/operationalising-the-principles-of-common-but-differentiated-responsibilities/) - This policy operationalises the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities (CBDR) by ensuring that climate mitigation, adaptation, and resource use reductions are distributed fairly between countries and social groups, reflecting historical responsibility and current capabilities.
- [Green and just transition jobs](https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/labour-policies-and-the-care-economy/green-and-just-transition-jobs/) - The transition to low-carbon economies requires a proactive strategy to protect workers and communities from dislocation.
- [Adaptive governance (example)](https://www.neep-poverty.org/adaptive-governance/)
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## Events

- [European Parliament: Joint Meeting with the Committee on Development and the Subcommittee on Human Rights](https://www.neep-poverty.org/event/european-parliament-joint-meeting-with-the-committee-on-development-and-the-subcommittee-on-human-rights/) - On 2 September, Olivier De Schutter joined Mavis Owusu-Gyamfi, President and CEO of the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), for an exchange of views at the European Parliament. Jointly convened by the Committee on Development and the Subcommittee on Human Rights, the event focused on the underlying assumptions of growth, poverty eradication, and human
- [High-Level Political Forum Virtual Side Event](https://www.neep-poverty.org/event/high-level-political-forum-virtual-side-event/) - Organised by the Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors, a virtual side event was held on June 7th at the 2026 High-Level Political Forum. The event convened experts to discuss how universal social protection and redistribution policies are vital to building equitable, sustainable economies. Watch the recording
- [Human Rights Council Side Event: The Effective Participation of People in Poverty in Beyond Growth Strategies](https://www.neep-poverty.org/event/human-rights-council-side-event-the-effective-participation-of-people-in-poverty-in-beyond-growth-strategies/) - On the day after the presentation of the Roadmap to the UN Human Rights Council, a hybrid side event was held at the Palais des Nations, on 26 June 2026. The side event was organised by ATD Fourth World, and co-sponsored by the Permanent Missions of Albania, Belgium, Chile, France, Morocco, Peru, Romania and The
- [Presentation of the Roadmap to the 62nd session of the UN Human Rights Council](https://www.neep-poverty.org/event/presentation-of-the-roadmap-to-the-62nd-session-of-the-un-human-rights-council/) - The Human Rights Council will consider the reports of the previous mandate holder, Olivier De Schutter, during an interactive dialogue with the new mandate holder, Elena Carolina Díaz Galán. The session will continue at 15:00. The manufacturing of poverty - Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights - A/HRC/62/42 Visit to Rwanda - A/HRC/62/42/Add.1 The Roadmap
- [World Inequality Conference 2026](https://www.neep-poverty.org/event/world-inequality-conference-2026/) - https://www.youtube.com/live/E9ANpqLT3wo?si=aYho4Uf4q_v6Ut-T&t=1137 On 5 June, Olivier De Schutter joined Lucas Chancel, Céline Guivarch, and Jofre Carnicer on a panel at the 2026 World Inequality Conference in Paris. The session tackled the "inequality question" in climate futures the day after the release of the Global Justice Report by the World Inequality Lab. In his intervention, Olivier highlighted
- [Université de Lausanne: Beyond Growth: A Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty - Olivier De Schutter](https://www.neep-poverty.org/event/universite-de-lausanne-beyond-growth-a-roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-olivier-de-schutter/) - This event focuses on the Roadmap for Poverty Eradication Beyond Growth, a major international project coordinated by the Special Rapporteur that aims to rethink anti-poverty policies within a post-growth framework centered on respect for human rights and the planet’s ecological limits.
- [ChangeNOW: Beyond Growth](https://www.neep-poverty.org/event/changenow-beyond-growth/) - UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, joins Michael Mezzatesta to discuss the Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth.
- [Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth: A Global Roadmap for a New Economy](https://www.neep-poverty.org/event/eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth-a-global-roadmap-for-a-new-economy/) - A high-level, international policy conference organised under the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, as a contribution to the International Labour Organization-led Global Coalition for Social Justice.
- [Eradicating poverty without growth: can it be done?](https://www.neep-poverty.org/event/this-is-a-demo-event-2/) - In this Open University Global Development Annual Lecture, Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights asks: Eradicating poverty without growth: can it be done?
- [Beyond growth pathways for eradicating poverty in the EU](https://www.neep-poverty.org/event/beyond-growth-pathways-for-eradicating-poverty-in-the-eu/) - Two years after the landmark Beyond Growth 2023 Conference, the European Parliament will once again host a high-level debate on the future of Europe’s socio-economic model.
- [Eradicating poverty by design: a roadmap beyond growth](https://www.neep-poverty.org/event/this-is-a-demo-event/) - UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, joins the monthly WEAll Talk series to discuss the Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth.

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