Sublime

Les cinq risques qui me préoccupent le plus sont une pandémie mondiale, un effondrement financier, une guerre mondiale, le changement climatique et l’extrême pauvreté. Pourquoi ces problèmes-là ? Parce qu’il est tout à fait possible qu’ils se produisent : les trois premiers se sont déjà produits par le passé, et les deux autres se produisent aujour

Soon growth was portrayed as a panacea for many social, economic and political ailments: as a cure for public debt and trade imbalances, a key to national security, a means to defuse class struggle, and a route to tackling poverty without facing the politically charged issue of redistribution.

while the proportion of Africans living in extreme poverty has declined, due to rapid population growth the number of Africans living in extreme poverty has increased by over 100 million over the past quarter century.

Amartya Sen – work for which he won a Nobel-Memorial prize. The focus of development, Sen argues, should be on ‘advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live’.20 Instead of prioritising metrics like GDP, the aim should be to enlarge people’s capabilities – such as to be healthy, empowered a

De la croissance sans fin à la prospérité équilibrée

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The challenge now is to create economies – local to global – that help to bring all of humanity into the Doughnut’s safe and just space.