The latest interviews, opinion pieces and blogs on initiatives taken to eradicate poverty beyond growth.
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.
15 August 2023
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.
21 June 2023
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.
6 June 2023
Olivier de Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, proposes a paradigm shift.
31 May 2023
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.
15 May 2023
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.
8 May 2023
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.
20 March 2023
