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Towards a Green & Inclusive India
The Limits to Growth (1972) was a landmark study which used dynamic computer modelling to predict that the global system would ultimately collapse if the production and consumption practices continued with business-as-usual. The implication was that economic growth must respect its planetary boundaries. While the report initially created much controversy, …
Literacy, Women Empowerment and Sustainable Development
Two-thirds of the world’s adult illiterates are women. Literacy is crucial for promoting women’s rights, achieving empowerment, enhancing livelihood skills, strengthening their participation and leadership in the public sphere, and ensuring gender justice. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations in September 2015, state under Goal 4: …
Empowering Entrepreneurial Space to Go Green and Become Inclusive
Circular economy is an evolution of findings of the Limits to Growth theorists. It challenges the linear take, make and dispose model of industrial production, seeking to decouple economic growth from resource use. It has recently gained significant traction, particularly in the global business community and advanced economies – as …
Dialogue for Engagement and Behaviour Change
Back to “Good Work”
Entrepreneurs – from village shopkeepers to owners of large industrial conglomerates – rule the economy. Economies have, in comparison to other influencing factors, an inordinately high impact on societal and environmental well-being. It follows, therefore, at the cost of oversimplifying something that is exceedingly complex, that any attempt to create …