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Economic growth influences well-being and who is, or is not, left behind. This chapter shows how indigenous conceptions of economic growth may be contextualised by culture and colonial experiences and why the Goals’ inattention to these contexts is important. The chapter provides examples from Australia, Canada and New Zealand from the policy domains of environmental management, procurement policy and free trade agreements. Thinking about economic growth from these perspectives shows that indigenous economic growth occurs at the intersection of justice and pragmatic economic policy, while restitution, self-determination and economic independence are also matters of justice. Not leaving people behind is a pragmatic economic imperative. Indigenous economic growth therefore contests and compromises the colonial ambitions of the state.
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O’Sullivan, D. (2023). Economic Growth. In: Indigeneity, Culture and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0581-2_10
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