#101: Why the GDP measure is damaging to women and how to move beyond it with Anam Parvez Butt
Anam Parvez Butt is a Pakistani feminist economist who currently works as the Head of Research at Oxfam GB where she works with others to develop and implement Oxfam’s research agendas on care and informal work, fragility and conflict and climate justice. In particular, the focus areas of her research include gender and macroeconomic policies, the care economy, feminist economic alternatives including metrics that challenge the neoliberal logic of growth, social norms and ending violence against women and girls (eVAWG). She is deeply committed to integrating intersectional feminist and decolonial approaches in research, learning from and supporting others to do so. She has co-authored two of Oxfam’s flagship inequality reports including “Time to Care”, the “Care Policy Scorecard” and recently published paper on “Radical Pathways to move beyond GDP”. We cover the following in this conversation: The GDP measure: what is it? Why this is problematic for women and for women's wealth Why Oxfam has added its voice to move beyond the GDP The recently published report called Radical Pathways Beyond GDP Why and how we need to pursue feminist and decolonial alternatives urgently And how do we accelerate the pace of change? ***