--- description: Olivier De Schutter is the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Olivier De Schutter ## Olivier De Schutter Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Olivier De Schutter is the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. ## Olivier De Schutter Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Jan 27, 2026 ### [Economic Growth at Any Cost Fails Us All](https://time.com/7358059/economic-growth-at-any-cost-danger/) We saw this paradigm at Davos last week, as leaders talked up growth. But that fails the planet and ... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/olivier-de-schutter/","name":"Olivier De Schutter"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/olivier-de-schutter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/olivier-de-schutter/"},"name":"Olivier De Schutter","jobTitle":null,"description":"Olivier De Schutter is the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.","url":"https://time.com/author/olivier-de-schutter/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```