Severe poverty is not a natural condition – and research indicates that the world has enough resources to eradicate it.
- Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona
The EU wants to become more resilient, autonomous and sustainable – yet its industrial policy contradicts these aims.
The World Bank used a tool known as purchasing power parity to make its calculations. An improved methodology suggests China’s pro-market reforms increased rather than shrank extreme poverty.
Increased development is always unsustainable, so let’s stop kidding ourselves.
The pursuit of endless industrial growth is chewing through our living planet, producing poverty and threatening our existence. The new Sustainable Development Goals fail to deal with this.
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