"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...

This Policy Brief argues that the fixation with the use of the Index of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has misled Africa's policy makers. This approach has led to the replacement of informal economic structures with formal market systems, the exploitation of natural resources and the increase in...

This report focuses on labour migration policy frameworks in a regional context. It provides an overview of global and regional standards and subsequently focuses on policy evolution in the Southern African regions. In particular, it deals with the set of policy frameworks regulating labour...

During the last two decades, there have been various attempts at measuring and assessing the health of civil society. Some have focused almost exclusively on ‘counting' the nonprofit, while others have assessed the strength of nongovernmental organizations. Yet, these sectors are just a small...

Economic measurements and indicators have their role to play in policy. However, as time passes, some of these indicators, like Gross Domestic Product (GDP), have come to shape our lives more than we can imagine. Here ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY invites Lorenzo Fioramonti, the author of two books on...