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Podcast: How to fight again poverty and inequalities?

5 June 2026

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 from dependency on growth, and the policy measures to achieve it.

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