📰 Today’s front page, 1 April 2026.
Job guarantees transforming labour markets. Polluters paying for climate and social justice. Governments rejecting GDP as a measure of progress. Debt cancellation allowing countries to invest in education. Conversations happening around the world on an extreme wealth line, reductions in working time and policies fit for future generations.
Encouraging news…if only it were true.
Yet none of these ideas are far-fetched. They are all grounded in real policy options — already debated, designed and, in some cases, tested — that governments could choose to implement now. They point to a future in which the fight against poverty breaks free from the limitations of traditional strategies that depend on economic growth at all costs.
In fact, they are just a few of the measures included in the Special Rapporteur’s upcoming Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth — a catalogue of policies showing how countries can end poverty without relying on environmentally and socially damaging models of growth. The solutions exist. What is needed now is political will.
📅 On Wednesday 22 April, the Roadmap will be presented at a major international conference held at the International Labour Organization in Geneva, as a contribution to the Global Coalition for Social Justice: Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth: A Global Roadmap for a New Economy
Join the Special Rapporteur on 22 April to learn more about the options on the table to confront the intertwined crises of poverty, inequalities and ecological breakdown:
🔗 Register to join in person
🔗 Register to follow online
Because policies that put people and the planet ahead of profit should not be a fiction reserved for April 1st.