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UNDP, Urban Development Beyond Growth, 25 November 2024
This new report, developed under the UNDP’s Mayors for Economic Growth (M4EG) programme, presents a critical examination of traditional economic growth driven models of development and recommends a shift towards «postgrowth» strategies for urban development.
In opening, it says:
«For development practitioners arguably the most groundbreaking development in the beyond growth discourse has come recently from within the UN itself. Olivier De Schutter is the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights for the UN Human Rights Council (OHCHR). On 1st May 2024 he delivered a report to the Council titled “Eradicating poverty beyond growth”, and has published an accompanying book for mainstream audiences “The Poverty of Growth”.
«What makes De Schutter’s intervention so important is that he is not a political or economic radical. He is not even an economist, let alone from the heterodox schools more associated with beyond growth discourses such as ecological economics. Instead he is a respected legal scholar, who has been led to his conclusions on growth through his detailed work on extreme poverty under the auspices of the UN. What’s more, he is particularly targeting growth as a tool for poverty alleviation in his critique, the area where even otherwise sympathetic figures insist that growth is still essential. This should be cause for development practitioners of all stripes to sit up and take notice.»