Poverty and Sustainable development - a quote

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''the experience of the last decades shows that the current neo-liberal policies lead to income polarisation, an increasing number of poor plus a growing number of very rich individuals, at the detriment of the middle class (OECD, 2011c).
Whereas there is no correlation between economic growth and poverty reduction, there is a strong one between reducing poverty and the existence of a welfare state (Alber, 2002).
Thus redistribution of wealth and income can be understood as an immediate necessity for sustainable development.
However, such considerations play no role in the OECD green growth concept''

(Lorek & Spangenberg, 2014)

References

Alber, J. (2002). Besser als sein Ruf - Der Sozialstaat als erfolgreiches Modell. Witteilungen 98.
Lorek, S., & Spangenberg, J. H. (2014). Sustainable consumption within a sustainable economy – beyond green growth and green economies. Journal of Cleaner Production, 63, 33–44. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.08.045
OECD, 2011c. Divided We Stand. Why Inequality Keeps Rising. OECD, Paris.