In the past 30 years, corporate has defined the development model. This model assumes that ‘development’ and ‘growth’ are synonymous, and that the more money moves around, the more countries ‘develop’. But when GDP growth counts as development, war becomes more beneficial than peace, and illness becomes more beneficial than health. Consumption becomes more beneficial than care, and private profit becomes more beneficial than public commons.
This model of development has failed. It has lowered real wages, increased labour migration and caused finance, environment, food and energy crises which continue to devastate the lives of women in the Global South.
The world urgently needs a new model of development, a model that asserts the right to development for all peoples over private profit. This is why APWLD developed the Development Justice platform.