A critical discussion of metrics, values and priorities—reframing economic policy away from extractive growth and towards sustainable, rights-based outcomes. As the world grapples with intersecting crises (from rising inequality and climate breakdown to democratic erosion and shrinking civic space), this side event calls for a bold rethinking of how development is defined, measured, and financed. Co-organised by La Coordinadora, Futuro en Común, Forus, and Oxfam International, the session will challenge the dominance of GDP as the main yardstick for progress and explore alternative metrics that prioritise human rights, gender equality, environmental sustainability, and care work. This conversation aims to shape a new financing paradigm, one that centers people and planet over profit, and reclaims public resources in service of collective, more just futures