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Long before the modern degrowth movement, Islamic economic thought placed limits on consumption, challenged wealth concentration and treated economic activity as a moral question.
The recent student protests in India reflect the difficulties faced by a middle class whose growth has slowed significantly in recent years.
The growth figures for June beat expectations – helped in part by record EV sales. But on a per-person basis, the economy is not doing so well.
As economic and demographic growth increasingly coexists with poverty and homelessness, resident-led alternatives
to housing are supporting communities left behind.
In Mozambique growth and employment are becoming disconnected, and so are skills and opportunity.
The US economy keeps defying the odds.
A new study reveals European public opinion goes against widely-held academic views on economic growth being counter-productive to environmental sustainability.
South Africa shouldn’t settle for a future in which millions who are willing and able to work go hungry while the country waits for the formal sector to grow.
As Canada moves forward with the Canada Strong Fund, it’s important to acknowledge and address its potential risks.
Economic conditions for ordinary Mozambicans are deteriorating. Poverty has risen, public services are unreliable and there are few decent job opportunities.
Net zero isn’t just about renewables. Decoupling shows how smarter energy systems, efficiency, and technology let economies grow while cutting emissions.
New targets would lift revenue to $7.2 billion and enrolments to 119,000 by 2034. But housing pressure, market concentration and graduate outcomes pose real risks.
Family reunification is often framed as a cost, but evidence shows it functions as social infrastructure that supports work, well-being and economic stability.
Despite a record-breaking trade surplus of US$1.2 trillion, China faces some stubborn economic headwinds.
Economists have argued for decades about the best treatment for the UK’s persistent economic malaise.
Nothing is certain but debt and taxes.
Traditional economics can’t respond to global crises like inequality and climate change.
Ghanaian bank lending to agriculture and manufacturing is in decline
A better understanding of growth could help to improve living standards in the world’s poorest countries.
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Dean of Business School, University of Southern Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, The Open University
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Principal Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, and Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Applied Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Professor of Business Economics, University of Birmingham
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Professor, Griffith Law School, Griffith University
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