Dreaming of peace isn’t enough
Karlijn Muiderman
The HLP report does not seem far-reaching enough to put its idealistic image-sketching into practice
Cracks in Turkey’s image as role model
Bertil Videt
Turkey needs to address human rights and inequality to be a role model for emerging powers.
World Bank neglects the needs of small businesses
Seth Kaplan
Small business are crucial in creating an inclusive economy. But the World Bank’s Doing Business Report does not focus on the most important issues...
Alternative farming models to export
Evert-jan Quak
A group of innovative organic farmers in the Netherlands want to change the Dutch export model of farming.
Worker cooperatives: democratising the economy
Jose Itzigsohn
An inclusive economy requires economic democracy. The development of a solidarity economy should be a key element.
Lost in development
Navigating the post-2015 debate
Bertil Videt | May 08, 2013
The Broker guides you through the many discussions about development after UN's Millennium Development Goals expire in 20...
Dossier post-2015
Highly ambitious or empty rhetoric?
Saskia Hollander | June 06, 2013
Although ambitious in terms of aims, the UN High Level Panel report is criticized for avoiding more difficult political issues like inequali...
Business as usual or system change
Davinia Gómez Sánchez | May 07, 2013
Views on the post-2015 development agenda fall roughly into three categories:MDG-based approaches, more comprehensive and multidimensional approaches and those that aim at system chan...
Lessons learned from the MDGs
Saskia Hollander, Cheshta Panday | May 07, 2013
The Broker sketches an overview of the process of formulating a new development agenda beyond 20...
MDGs have ignored inequality
Sara Murawski | May 07, 2013
Social exclusion and inequality have been neglected in the MDG framework and their structural causes need to be addressed in a systematic w...
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Editorial: History repeats itself. Or not?
Frans Bieckmann | May 08, 2013
At the end of the 1990s I wrote a lot about the alter-globalization movement. The movement really hit the headlines with the mass prote...
Ending hunger within a generation
Evert-jan Quak | May 07, 2013
Food security can be the glue that brings us closer to a universal development agenda that aims to secure good quality food supplies for everyone in the near futu...
Dossier Food Security
Our food security findings captured
Karlijn Muiderman | April 17, 2013
This report contains three articles with the main findings and recommendations of our international debate on food security. 90 international experts helped determine key challenges and offered answers on how a knowledge-based policy can tackle global food iss...
Building resilient and inclusive food markets
Evert-jan Quak | April 17, 2013
To achieve maximum impact on food and nutrition security, knowledge and research policy should focus on local agriculture and food secto...
PPPs: listen to the farmers
Karlijn Muiderman | April 17, 2013
Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) have dominated global food security strategies. There is general agreement that the preconditions for success are to address the food system as a whole and to include local farme...
From local to global: prioritizing food security
Evert-jan Quak | April 17, 2013
How can or should global actors be involved in local rural development that suits small-scale farmers and local entrepreneurs? A new research agenda on food security can help to find the answe...
Land grab
Untangling the myth of the global land rush
Annelies Zoomers, Evert-jan Quak | April 01, 2013
The global land rush has not lifted small-scale farmers out of poverty, nor has it increased agricultural productivity and food securi...
Dossier Inequality
Articles
Our Inequality Dossier
December 18, 2012
Welcome to The Broker Dossier on inequality. The core of the Dossier is formed by three articles by editors from The Broker te...
Articles
Putting inequality on the map
Sara Murawski | December 18, 2012
In recent decades, inequality has been increasing worldwide. Although the middle classes are growing, most of the world’s population continues to live close to the poverty lines. ‘Emerging giants’ India and China are witnessing soaring inequality rates, but Latin America is making improvemen...
Articles
Stalling growth and development
Naomi Woltring | December 18, 2012
Inequality hinders sustainable economic growth, allows the rich a disproportionate share of political power, and fosters violence and criminali...
Articles
Embracing inclusive growth
Evert-jan Quak | December 18, 2012
Now economists more and more accept the idea that inequality is rising in most parts of the world and harms sustainable economic growth, the obvious next step is to change the policies that cause...
Most recent debates
Spurring economic transition
Africa: transformation, more than just growth
Annemarie van de Vijsel | 18 June 2013
African economic transformation should be inclusive, but how can this be achieved? Experts discussed this at the launch... read more
Spurring economic transition
Creating shared value: revolution or clever con?
Wayne Visser | 17 June 2013
Creating shared value is a new concept to get private sector involved in building an inclusive economy. But how different it is from CSR? read more
Spurring economic transition
Planet earth is wage-led!
Özlem Onaran | 17 June 2013
Economic growth should go hand in hand with an improvement in wage share and vice versa. However, current economic policy does not. read more
Emerged Powers
Awakening of New Power
Yedan Li | 17 June 2013
A Glimpse Into Life Stories in the World’s Factory -Part 2 on migrant workersFor ethical reasons relating to the authorâ€... read more
Post-2015: shaping a global agenda
A new global partnership?
Shirin Rai | 14 June 2013
The HLP report does not address the underlying power dynamics that might undermine the effectiveness and outcomes of the... read more
Post-2015: shaping a global agenda
After the post-2015 HLP report
Gina Bergh Paula Lucci | 13 June 2013
A report of ODI's event on the High Level Panel report on the post-2015 development agenda. read more
Emerged Powers
Forget the power, let us celebrate
Yu Chen | 11 June 2013
It was a beautiful sunny Sunday morning when I received my mother’s call from China while contemplating my first blog... read more
Spurring economic transition
World Bank neglects the needs of small businesses
Seth Kaplan | 06 June 2013
Small business are crucial in creating an inclusive economy. But the World Bank’s Doing Business Report does not focus... read moreEmerged Powers
A Divided Town
Yedan Li | 06 June 2013
If China is the world’s factory, then Qingyang town represents the forefront of production. read moreFood Security blog
Alternative farming models to export
Evert-jan Quak | 05 June 2013
A group of innovative organic farmers in the Netherlands want to change the Dutch export model of farming. read moreSpurring economic transition
Worker cooperatives: democratising the economy
Jose Itzigsohn | 05 June 2013
An inclusive economy requires economic democracy. The development of a solidarity economy should be a key element. read moreEmerged Powers
Cracks in Turkey’s image as role model
Bertil Videt | 04 June 2013
Turkey needs to address human rights and inequality to be a role model for emerging powers. read morePost-2015: shaping a global agenda
Systemic change, but how?
Toon van Eijk | 03 June 2013
Implementing systemic change requires consciousness development. read moreSpurring economic transition
Trade unions are crucial to economic transformation
David Cichon | 30 May 2013
Trade unions are crucial in transforming the economy since they fight for the democratic inclusion of all participants. read moreGlobal development blog
Results Based Management: does it pay off?
Reinier van Hoffen | 29 May 2013
As a result of increasing complexity and absence of strong leadership it has become difficult for policy makers to ensure... read moreInequality debate
The inequality of macroeconomic risk
Nick Galasso | 27 May 2013
Food price hikes, natural disasters, environmental degradation, and financial crises share at least two things in common:... read moreSpurring economic transition
Progressive policies and the Palma
Alex Cobham Andy Sumner | 27 May 2013
The failure of effective direct taxation is the central explanation for much higher final income inequality. read moreSpurring economic transition
From trickle-down to bubble-up
David Woodward | 23 May 2013
Economic policy should focus on poverty reduction rather than on growth and should start in rural areas. read moreSpurring economic transition
An inclusive economy? Yes, but globally!
Rolph van der Hoeven | 23 May 2013
Policies to improve inclusiveness should rethink the model of financial globalization in the same way as industrialization... read moreSpurring economic transition
Looking at South America for answers
Milford Bateman | 23 May 2013
South American countries are experimenting with the social and solidarity economy (SSE) model. It’s time for the West... read moreTrade and aid
Articles
Dutch development policy lacks an alternative economic vision
Frans Bieckmann | May 29, 2013
The debate on development policy, between ‘traditional’ aid and ‘modern’ cooperation centred around trade and economic activity, is a false o...
Global development blog
Trade and aid: a balancing act
Hans Berkhuizen Fiona Dove Ronald Gijsbertsen Danielle Hirsch Ruud van den Hurk Ineke Zeldenrust | 25 March 2013
read moreNew: Emerged Powers
In 2013, emerging powers will produce the majority of the world’s economic output.What are the consequences, worldwide and within the countries, of this, so far mainly economic, change in the global power balan...
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Video report of The Broker Day (Dutch)
Recent articles
Strenghtening the accountability of local governance
Stephan Klingebiel, Timo Mahn | March 12, 2013
The trend of decentralising governance responsibilities to the sub-national level in Africa will continue and therefore it is crucial that this transfer of responsibilities will be matched by equal efforts to increase sub-national Public Financial Management capaci...
The Broker Day on inclusive growth
Sara Murawski | February 14, 2013
On 31 January, as a follow-up to the Inequality Dossier and the subsequent online inequality debate, the Broker organized its first The Broker Day. A room full of experts discussed the policy steps that the international community - and the Netherlands in particular - must take to reduce inequality on a worldwide sca...
Why risk management for development organisations is important
Magda Stepanyan | February 13, 2013
Development organisations need to adopt a new way of working, otherwise we will continue to be surprised by recurrent crises and development efforts which turn out to be far from effect...
From the theme pages
Development INGOs
Michael Edwards | December 05, 2011
What is the right thing to do when you reach sixty? This is a question that many NGOs, which were founded in the burst of internationalism that followed the end of World War II, are asking themselves today as they reach late middle age. Oxfam celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2002 and CARE in 2005, while Hivos will reach this milestone in 2028 and ActionAid three years after th...
Building quality of life together
Steffie Verstappen | October 20, 2011
Read about the results of our lively online debate on human wellbeing and inclusive economi...
Keeping the sustainable development flame alive
Karoline Van den Brande , Sander Happaerts, Sofie Bouteligier | June 25, 2011
Sustainable development has been on the international agenda since the late 1980s. Political and public attention for the issue has mainly rolled on the waves of large-scale United Nations summits. A new summit is being organized for 2012. Will it give new impetus to the debate on sustainable developme...
Turkey turns the tide
Jean-Paul Marthoz | February 10, 2011
Contrary to what its critics think, Turkey is not 'adrift' but shaken by the pitch and roll resulting from a fundamental rethinking of Turkishne...