People and Planet-Centered Economic Policy

The Policy Coherence for Development approach (PCD) provides the opportunity to analyse economic policy from a different standpoint. This rationale places life and the care of human beings and the planet at the center of the analysis. It therefore has enormous potential to reorient these policies and tackle the global challenges involved in development. In order to contribute to this analytical approach, this article explores a set of economic policies from the PCD perspective. The analysis is part of broader research being carried out by Plataforma 2015 y más that puts together an index to measure countries’ behaviour in PCD terms. The article aims to help contribute to identifying the minimum aspects that should be included in this index, in order to measure the coherence of the three types of economic policy it covers: fiscal, financial and trade.