In light of the expanding critical academic literature on the social and ecological limits to a growth-based paradigm, this article investigates the ties between economic, social and cultural rights (ESC rights) and economic growth in the case law of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR). It shows that the CESCR assumes economic growth to generally improve the realisation of ESC rights because it increases States’ financial capacity and leads to employment creation. However, while the Committee deems that growth models should be inclusive, the CESCR never adopts a critical perspective on the possibility or desirability to pursue economic growth indefinitely. Despite recent evidence on the contested possibility to decouple economic activity from resource use, the Committee’s recent ecological turn remains embedded in the growth paradigm. This article argues that the Committee should advocate towards decreasing the dependence of ESC rights on growth, especially when a State has reached a certain level of affluence.

鉴于关于社会和生态学限制的以增长为基础的范式的批判性学术文献不断增多，本文根据经济委员会的判例法研究经济，社会和文化权利（ESC权利）与经济增长之间的关系，社会文化权利（CESCR）。它表明，经济，社会和文化权利委员会假定经济增长总体上改善了经社理事会权利的实现，因为它增加了国家的财政能力并导致创造就业机会。然而，尽管委员会认为增长模式应具有包容性，但经济，社会和文化权利委员会从未对无限期追求经济增长的可能性或期望采取批评性的观点。尽管最近有证据表明有争议的可能性可能使经济活动与资源使用脱钩，委员会最近的生态转变仍保留在增长范式中。本文认为，委员会应提倡减少对经济，社会和文化权利的依赖，尤其是在一国达到一定富裕水平时。