By excluding many factors that contribute to the overall health of the economy and wider society, the GDP metric steers policymakers towards priorities that are fuelling inequality, gender and racial injustice, and climate breakdown.
Taxing windfall profits is smart economic policy, a clear and direct source of money for development and tackling climate change, say campaigners. Piling more loans onto poorer countries makes no sense when debt is accelerating the climate crisis.
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