Partha Dasgupta

Partha Dasgupta

Sir Partha Dasgupta is the Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge and the 2016 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement Laureate. He has spent nearly most of his professional life working on poverty and inequality issues. His cutting-edge research covers welfare and development economics, the economics of technological change, population, environmental and resource economics, game theory and the economics of malnutrition. In 2002, he was named Knight Bachelor by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for services to economics.

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What's missing from the SDGs

What's missing from the SDGs

over 9 years ago // Sustainable Development Goals

Measuring growth — and by extension progress toward the SDGs — with GDP is problematic. In this exclusive commentary, University of Cambridge Professor Emeritus Partha Dasgupta argues that we must not let "sustainable" become a buzzword that loses its meaning.