Olivier De Schutter is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. Previously, he has been the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, and a member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. He has written extensively on the protection of economic and social rights in the context of economic globalization. He is the co-author of The Escape from Poverty: Breaking the Vicious Cycles Perpetuating Disadvantage and Social Innovation in the Service of Ecological and Social Transformation: The Rise of the Enabling State'.
Foreword by Kate Raworth
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. What is Poverty?
2. Is Economic Growth the Solution?
3. The Strange Persistence of the Ideology of Growth
4. The Post-growth Approach to Combating Poverty
Conclusion
Notes
