Moving Beyond GDP - published in The Guardian and Le Monde

[Ritu Verma]

The importance of Moving Beyond Growth, published today in the Guardian and Le Monde

In the face of deepening inequalities and global ecological disaster, leading experts agree that growth has failed to eradicate poverty or to promote wellbeing. They confirm that poverty is not inevitable. Rather, it is manufactured.

Yet another way is possible. The Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty, co-developed by more than 400 contributors across academia, the UN system, trade unions, grassroots movements, and civil society, offers 80 concrete policy measures to transform the global economy to ensure human and ecological wellbeing by design.  

📘Read in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/10/economists-maths-growth-doomed-strategy-un-agencies-political-leaders

📕Lire dans Le Monde: https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2026/06/10/si-les-gouvernements-peuvent-fabriquer-la-pauvrete-ils-peuvent-aussi-l-eradiquer-pres-de-400-personnalites-internationales-proposent-une-feuille-de-route-concrete_6700388_3232.html

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Dr. Ritu Verma
PhD Anthropology | MA International Development | PEng Civil Engineering

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