Is the State Here to Stay? - Boston Review
States are exerting greater control over capital. In the face of climate change, it may be too little, too late.
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States are exerting greater control over capital. In the face of climate change, it may be too little, too late.
Some days, I know that I am living the dream. I have a house in London. I even had the compulsory kitchen extension. It’s more than big enough for me and I have lived here with all sorts of combinations of family and extended family: children, grandchildren, lodgers.
The rise of populism is a response to the collapse of a shared vision of the Good. But a purely secular approach to the dignity of the human person is naïve in the face of illiberalism. We may have to go back to where we got our belief in moral and legal equality in the first place.
Since 2018, the World Bank’s multidimensional poverty measure has gone beyond monetary deprivation to include other dimensions such as access to education, health, nutritional, and basic infrastructure services. The Inclusive and Deliberative Elaboration and Evaluation of Policies (IDEEP) tool is the first of its kind ensuring all its dimensions, including those that are “hidden,” are considered.
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