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Reflection: Growth is Dead: Long Live Growth! Does the Quality of Growth Matter?

by Ippei Tsuruga Views: 240
photo credit: Lawrence Haddad
photo credit: Lawrence Haddad

Yesterday, IDS-JICA-AFD held a joint book launch in Paris. Unfortunately, I could not attend the lively discussion but Lawrence Haddad, one of the co-editor of the book, summarises it on his website. Some of the key topics seem to include: Do we need growth? Role of governments, business and politics? Measure of quality? For more detail, see his website.

The full book contents will likely be available online in early February.

There are some more discussions and comments on the launch on Twitter as follows.

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Author: Ippei TsurugaIppei Tsuruga is Social Protection Programme Manager for Indonesia at International Labour Organization. He has been managing programmes and providing technical contributions to social security reforms at the country level in Indonesia, Viet Nam and Myanmar, and also contributing to research and knowledge management at the ASEAN regional and global levels. He has been involved in various policy discussions and research activities on unemployment benefit, old-age, invalidity and survivors’ benefits, maternity benefit, sickness benefit, and the extension of social protection to workers in the informal economy. He has worked at the ILO Country Office for Indonesia and Timor-Leste, the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and the Social Protection Department; and JICA Washington D.C. Office, Research Department, Country Office for Kenya, and Africa Department for Kenya, Nigeria and Somalia.

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