Nora Lustig

economist

Nora Lustig is a prominent economist and a key advocate for rethinking economic measures of success, particularly in relation to human wellbeing and sustainability. She co-chairs a UN initiative that aims to develop a new set of metrics to complement GDP, emphasizing the importance of equity and the true value of social progress. Lustig has argued that traditional economic growth metrics can obscure issues of poverty, exclusion, and human rights violations, highlighting the need for a more holistic approach to measuring development.