Throughout Africa, China is challenging the West, not only in terms of economic investments, but also through its development aid.

The financial crisis has prompted a discussion on the re-structuring of the world’s financial system. 

The Broker has started a new series on Emerged States. We kicked off with the articles Turkey turns the tide and Brazil braves new waters. 

Neil McCulloch is a Research Fellow and Leader of the Globalisation Team at the Institute of Development Studies, UK.

Is water a commodity or a public good? Who can assume the right to open or close the water tap? This blog will focus on the public to public partnerships for water utilities.

In 2000, all 193 United Nations member states agreed to join efforts and encourage development by improving social and economic conditions in the world’s poorest countries. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were stated: ‘an ambitious list of...

I truly believe in the Water Operators’ Partnership (WOP) concept. But there are always buts. Waternet has lots of experience in the international cooperation in the water sector. It appears to be hard to see a fruitful solution to fight poverty;...

Since the first of January 2010, the water services of Paris have been provided by a single public operator, Eau de Paris. The old public-private company has been transformed into a public body, whose mission is to produce, transport, distribute a...

Capacity building is not enough to make the not-for-profit partnerships between water utilities called Water Operators’ Partnerships (WOPs) by the United Nations successful to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. This peer-to-peer cooperation...

To feed the world’s growing population in a sustainable and inclusive way with good quality food is one of the main tasks for our time. The solution lies partly at the local level: the livelihoods, and the cultural, socioeconomic, and environmenta...

How can we create a more inclusive economy and what obstacles lie in the way? This debate seeks answers.