Eradicating poverty beyond growth: A global roadmap for a new economy

This high-level international policy conference is organised under the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, as a contribution to the International Labour Organization-led Global Coalition for Social Justice. 
 

This public event will bring together leading scholars, diplomats, UN officials, policymakers, trade unions, employers’ organisations, civil society organisations, and social movements from around the world to discuss strategies to confront the intertwined crises of poverty, inequalities and ecological breakdown, beyond the limited imagination of economic growth orthodoxy. 

Eradicating poverty beyond growth: A global roadmap for a new economy offers an important forum in which to discuss how moving beyond growth is not about bringing economic activity to a halt. Rather, it requires confronting the failures of growth as it has been pursued in practice. Leading experts will take to the floor in Geneva to articulate alternative development pathways that decentre GDP as the primary measure of progress and demonstrate how social well-being and ecological integrity can be advanced through models less reliant on continuous economic expansion. The event will also mark the launch of the Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth, a collaborative effort by UN agencies, civil society, unions, and academic experts who have been working since 2024 to identify proposals that can achieve social progress and wellbeing without relying on perpetual economic growth.