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Ecohesion Collective contributes to the UN international Roadmap on poverty beyond growth
The Ecohesion Collective research centre, based at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Pisa, has contributed to the Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth, an international proposal on poverty, inequalities, ecological crisis and economic models.
The Roadmap, promoted within the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, proposes a change of perspective: the fight against poverty cannot depend only on GDP growth. It must be based on policies that reduce inequalities, strengthen social rights, guarantee essential services and respect the ecological limits of the planet.
As part of the Roadmap, researchers Simone D’Alessandro, Matthieu Bordenave and Kilian Rouge developed a contribution on the democratisation of macroeconomic modelling tools. The main idea is that economic models are not neutral tools: they influence how public policies are assessed, making some effects visible while leaving others in the background.
For this reason, the contribution calls for more transparent tools, such as public registers of the models used, clear model cards explaining assumptions and limits, and comparison between different approaches. The aim is to avoid important social and economic decisions being based on a single technical perspective, and to open the space for broader assessments of poverty, inequalities, work, wellbeing and environmental sustainability.
Ecohesion Collective’s participation in the Roadmap confirms the centre’s role in the international debate on economic policies beyond growth and on the need for more open, plural and socially responsible analytical tools.