Opinion

Buried deep in the Pact for the Future – a global declaration to be agreed by heads of state and government meeting at the U.N. in New York this weekend – is a pledge that, if realised, could represent one of the greatest shifts in the way we address global poverty.

Towards the end of the action-packed document, governments “reaffirm the need to urgently develop measures of progress on sustainable development that complement or go beyond GDP”.