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Scientific paper

Degrowth: Consume less. Share more.

Authors:
Rajni Bakshi

Entry type:
Scientific paper

Year of publication:
2016

Publishers:
Gateway House

Language:
English

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From the publication: . . . But this looming crisis is also an opportunity to expand our imagination and open new vistas. For India, therefore, “re-growth” might be a more meaningful descriptor than the “degrowth” scenario being articulated by West European academics and activists. Its essence would be similar to what Mahatma Gandhi called “sarvodaya” — or an equitable and ecologically and socially sustainable spread of prosperity, instead of GDP - related growth that only measures the total of money - based transactions and/or the total exchange of materials and services