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Why Growth Is Not Enough

Kate Raworth · 25 Mar 2014

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    Economic growth is not enough as the goal of economies; we need richer measures of what they should aim at.

    Their wordsFor over half a century, the goal has been economic growth – but while the global economy has quadrupled in size since the 1970s, human deprivation persists, environmental degradation is deepening, and inequality is at the heart of it all. It’s clear that we need richer concepts and measures of what our economies should be aimed at.

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