Arketa Institute piece featured in NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of 2025

Back in October of this year, Matt and Steve published an article on a key media platform covering emerging markets and social enterprise: NextBillion.

Titled ‘To Change the World, Change Your Economics: How Degrowth Can Shrink Overconsumption in the Global North While Allowing the Global South to Grow’, the piece looked at the differences between Neoclassical and Ecological Economics and how the latter could help us reconceptualize Development Finance in more fit-for-purpose ways.

As part of their end of year wrap up, NextBillion shares a list of the year’s top articles and offers readers the chance to vote on the one that most influenced their thinking that year.

This has been a tradition since 2012 and we’re delighted to be among the articles featured in 2025, alongside pieces from impact investing network toniic and many others.

Our thanks once again to Managing Editor James Militzer for making space for these important conversations.

Voting is open through January 4th, 2026 and offers an easy way to help these ideas reach more people. We appreciate your support!