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View article: The Poverty of Growth
The Poverty of Growth Open
An accessible, jargon-free manifesto for how to achieve prosperity without growth
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View article: Introduction
Introduction Open
Why, in a world of plenty, are we failing to eradicate poverty? This collective failure is: (i) because we only rarely move beyond the symptoms to address the root causes of the inter-generational perpetuation of poverty (IGPP); (ii) becau…
View article: Index
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see also sub-Saharan Africa; individual countries African-American children 47-48 agency 58-59 Akanksha 45 Asia 16, 21, 98 see also South Asia; individual countries aspirations 58-59 at-risk-of-poverty rate 12-13, 12n2 see also income pove…
View article: Towards an inclusive economy
Towards an inclusive economy Open
There has recently been a rapid growth in international literature and research on the links between economic growth and social capability and their impact upon well-being. This paper draws on that literature to build upon previous Treasur…
View article: The Escape from Poverty
The Escape from Poverty Open
ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND license. The perpetuation of poverty across generations damages lives. It weakens social cohesion and the economy and undermines environmental sustainability. This book examines why pov…
View article: Making it happen
Making it happen Open
This chapter highlights the challenge of making the necessary changes happen to end inter-generational perpetuation of poverty (IGPP). It suggests eleven things that could help to bring about change: (i) invest in raising public and politi…
View article: List of abbreviations
List of abbreviations Open
View article: Post-market redistribution
Post-market redistribution Open
In looking at what is needed to break the vicious cycles that perpetuate poverty, this chapter explores the potential of classic tax-and-transfer policies on which the welfare state was built. Such policies remain essential, in combination…
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Front Matter Open
View article: How poverty is perpetuated across generations
How poverty is perpetuated across generations Open
This chapter examines the factors that perpetuate poverty across generations. It focuses on ten key factors: (i) poor health and poor access to health services; (ii) malnutrition; (iii) inadequate housing and disadvantaged neighbourhoods; …
View article: Setting the stage
Setting the stage Open
This chapter explains what inter-generational perpetuation of poverty (IGPP) is. It stresses the strong link between IGPP and child poverty. Children who grow up in poverty not only have limited opportunities to reach their full potential;…
View article: L’agroécologie au cœur du Pacte vert européen
L’agroécologie au cœur du Pacte vert européen Open
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View article: Les mots du droit : une grammatologie critique du droit international public
Les mots du droit : une grammatologie critique du droit international public Open
Les mots du droit : une grammatologie critique du droit international public. Un article de la revue Revue québécoise de droit international / Quebec Journal of International Law / Revista quebequense de derecho internacional (Volume 6, nu…
View article: Pathways to Equitable Food Systems
Pathways to Equitable Food Systems Open
Globally, our food systems are highly inequitable. In a world with enough food, hunger is becoming normalised for large numbers of people, while diets are worsening and obesity is rising. Racialised minorities are more at risk from obesity…
View article: Universal Social Protection Floors: A Joint Responsibility
Universal Social Protection Floors: A Joint Responsibility Open
View article: A Duty to Negotiate in Good Faith as Part of the Duty to Cooperate to Establish ‘An International Legal Order in which Human Rights can be Fully Realized’
A Duty to Negotiate in Good Faith as Part of the Duty to Cooperate to Establish ‘An International Legal Order in which Human Rights can be Fully Realized’ Open
The Declaration on the Right to Development refers to the duty of states to ‘co-operate with each other in ensuring development and eliminating obstacles to development’, and the extraterritorial human rights duties of states have gained v…
View article: A human rights-based approach to measuring poverty
A human rights-based approach to measuring poverty Open
This important Research Handbook explores the nexus between human rights, poverty and inequality as a critical lens for understanding and addressing key challenges of the coming decades, including the objectives set out in the Sustainable …
View article: Ending childhood obesity: Introducing the issues and the legal challenge
Ending childhood obesity: Introducing the issues and the legal challenge Open
The introductory chapter sets the scene in the field of childhood obesity prevention, addressing the global rise of this ever more acute public health challenge and the response to date at national and international levels. The nature and …
View article: Three models of equality and European anti-discrimination law
Three models of equality and European anti-discrimination law Open
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View article: Face à la crise historique engendrée par la pandémie de coronavirus: Organisons notre sécurité alimentaire !
Face à la crise historique engendrée par la pandémie de coronavirus: Organisons notre sécurité alimentaire ! Open
Une opinion rédigée et transmise à la Première ministre et aux Ministresprésidents régionaux par un collectif de signataires.
View article: Changements climatiques et droits humains : l’affaire Urgenda
Changements climatiques et droits humains : l’affaire Urgenda Open
Dans un arrêt du 20 décembre 2019, le Hoge Raad des Pays-Bas confirme les décisions des juridictions inférieures faisant obligation à l’État néerlandais de prendre toutes mesures propres à réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre des …
View article: Agir pour le climat
Agir pour le climat Open
View article: 'Building back better': social justice in the green economy
'Building back better': social justice in the green economy Open
As the world faces an unprecedented economic crisis, governments have adopted various stimulus plans to speed up the recovery. This article examines how the fight against poverty can be combined with the search for a development model that…
View article: The Political Economy Approach to Food Systems Reform
The Political Economy Approach to Food Systems Reform Open
The political economy approach to food systems steers away both from approaches that focus on biogeochemical flows and the embeddedness of food systems in the biosphere, and from classical economists’ approaches that address the role of pr…
View article: Panel voor klimaat en duurzaamheid : om klimaatverandering en de ecosysteemcrisis echt aan te pakken is systeemverandering noodzakelijk en urgent
Panel voor klimaat en duurzaamheid : om klimaatverandering en de ecosysteemcrisis echt aan te pakken is systeemverandering noodzakelijk en urgent Open
View article: Food as commons: Towards a new relationship between the public, the civic and the private
Food as commons: Towards a new relationship between the public, the civic and the private Open
This book was motivated by the need to approach with a fresh look what we regard as perhaps the most embarrassing predicament of the Anthropocene/Capitalocene (Capra and Mattei, 2015, Altvater et al., 2016, Moore, 2017).We live in an era w…
View article: Sovereign Debt and the Right to Food
Sovereign Debt and the Right to Food Open
Sovereign debt and the measures imposed on indebted nations, in conjunction with trade liberalisation under the WTO or other similar regimes have forced many countries to forego traditional food security schemes, particularly through state…
View article: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Advancing the right to Food to promote Public Health
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Advancing the right to Food to promote Public Health Open
The core objective of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) since its founding in 1945 has been to eradicate hunger. International policy debates and the work of the Organization focused until the 1980s on incre…
View article: L’agroécologie, vers la concrétisation d’une utopie ?
L’agroécologie, vers la concrétisation d’une utopie ? Open
L’agroécologie prône une vision plus responsable de l’agriculture, plus respectueuse de la Terre et de l’Homme. Elle trouve une résonance croissante chez nous, tant dans la société que dans le monde agricole. Quels sont les enjeux de l’agr…