"GDP is much more than a simple statistic. It has become the overarching benchmark of success and a powerful ordering principle at the heart of the global economy. But the convergence of major economic, social and environmental crises has exposed the flaws of our economic system which values GDP...

During the last ten years of apartheid rule, civil society organizations gradually became the privileged partners of the European Community’s support to democratization in South Africa. In order to avoid direct politicization of its activity in the country, the European Commission primarily...