What does it take for an idea to spread and shape entire systems?

Every year, thousands of brilliant social innovations emerge, yet only a fraction manage to expand beyond their immediate surroundings. Why do so many promising solutions fail to scale?

In this episode of the Beyond GDP podcast, host Michael Green invited Kieron Boyle, CEO of 100x Impact Accelerator and Professor for the Impact Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Together, they explore how we need to rethink scale beyond simply getting bigger as an organization.

How can we scale solutions so others replicate and adopt the main idea, and eventually, not think about building a billion-dollar company but an organization that impacts a billion lives?

How can social innovations shape the systems that surround them?

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When we look at elections, the narrative usually centers on promises of transformation, economic expansion, or fresh starts. But what happens when an entire nation holds together not by alignment with a vision, but by a collective effort to keep the alternative out?

This is the core dilemma defining the face-off between presidential candidates President Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro, where voter rejection on both sides far outweighs genuine enthusiasm for a different future. In our latest episode of Beyond GDP: The Social Progress Podcast, Dr. Ricardo Chaves Lima analyzes Brazil’s upcoming presidential and legislative elections on October 4th. Dr. Chaves has a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville; he is currently a professor at the Federal University of Pernambuco and is a close partner of IPS Brasil. ‍

‍The incoming president faces global and domestic crises: navigating trade tensions with the U.S., balancing BRICS agreements, managing the climate crisis with some deniers still in power, and repairing a broken education system.

In this episode, we don’t offer campaign predictions. Instead, we pull back the curtain on how budgetary power, institutional barriers, populism and voter psychology will impact the result on October 4th.

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When the Sustainable Development Goals were unveiled in 2015, they weren't designed for modest, step-by-step improvements. They required a massive, structural leap in how societies function.

Over the past decade, tracking metrics beyond simple GDP has revealed that economic growth alone is failing to hit core benchmarks for social and environmental wellbeing.

Gains in basic infrastructure like water, sanitation, and connectivity are hitting hard walls, while fundamental freedoms are sliding backward at a pace hard to ignore.

Are we looking at a temporary setback caused by recent global shocks, or has the global development model itself reached its absolute limit?

In this episode, Michael Green analyzes whether his past predictions have come true.

He also explores 15 years of data with the 2026 Global Social Progress Index to map where the world actually stands, why the biggest nations are causing massive swings in global trends, and what piece of the puzzle must be restored before any real progress can resume.

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