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Welcome to The Broker blogs. This page provides links to all of the blogs currently available on The Broker. These include our resident bloggers Thea Hilhorst and Frans Bieckmann in addition to conference blogs and events coverage. We invite you to read, comment and participate…

Minder pretentie, meer ambitie

Joep Houterman: Hoger onderwijs, een noodzakelijke voorwaarde voor ontwikkeling: we zijn er verder mee dan de WRR denkt

Joep Houterman, Directeur Nuffic, Directie Capaciteitsopbouw en Beurzen De Nuffic (1) heeft met grote interesse kennisgenomen van het WRR-rapport ‘Minder pretentie, meer ambitie’. Met deze reactie willen wij bijdragen aan de discussie over di...   Read more>>

Posted by Joep Houterman on 12/03/2010


The Treehuggers' Treadmill

  1. »  Making a difference has nothing to do with complexity
    Pepijn Jansen, 12/03/2010
  2. »  The treadmill…
    Frank Hubers, 12/03/2010
  3. »  More

In praise of learning

“When I was 17, my parents didn’t know a thing. It’s amazing how much they’ve learnt in 10 years!” Now is not a good time to draw me into the blogosphere. You should have gotten hold of me five years ago, when I still knew everything. When Pr...   Read more>>

Posted by Mari-Lise du Preez on 12/03/2010


Less pretension, more ambition

Gerald F. Hyman: Focus on the particular: yes and no

Gerald F. Hyman, senior advisor to CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies) and president, Hills Program on Governance at CSIS, Washington, D.C. Two opposite spectres hang over the article Aid for development can be better by Pe...   Read more>>

Posted by Gerald F. Hyman on 11/03/2010


Europe's International Role

The Barroso II Commission: one small step for European development policy

Note from the editor: the below article was published on the 1st of March on the website of the German Development Institute, and in German on the sites of Die Zeit and Deutsche Welle The approval of the second EU-Commission of José Manuel Ba...   Read more>>

Posted by Mark Furness, Davina Makhan on 08/03/2010


Janelle Ward

The internet and sustainable rural development

While perusing the latest issue of a journal that I try to follow regularly (Information, Communication & Society), I came across a piece entitled “NGOs, the Internet and Sustainable Rural Development: The Case of Indonesia.” It was written...   Read more>>

Posted by Janelle Ward on 04/03/2010


Theory vs policy

  1. »  Human Development vs Washington Consensus
    Marieke Hounjet, 20/02/2010
  2. »  Frustrations and Opportunities
    Alexander von Rosenbach, 19/02/2010
  3. »  Beyond Sachs & Easterly
    Marieke Hounjet, 19/02/2010
  4. »  Making a good START?
    Alexander von Rosenbach, 19/02/2010
  5. »  The Peacebuilding Pracademic
    Marieke Hounjet, 18/02/2010
  6. »  More

Blogging for The Good

As a last blog on the ‘theory vs policy’ conference I thought it might be appropriate to write about the function of ‘blogging’ for improving the research and policy interface. This topic was given some serious dedication through a roundtable wi...   Read more>>

Posted by Marieke Hounjet on 23/02/2010


Enrique Mendizabal

  1. »  The conflict is in the seas
    Enrique Mendizabal, 15/01/2010
  2. »  Waiting in Dubai
    Enrique Mendizabal, 29/12/2009
  3. »  Taxi Taxi
    Enrique Mendizabal, 23/12/2009
  4. »  Good for Development
    Enrique Mendizabal, 19/11/2009
  5. »  Ask a researcher to pick a policy problem...
    Enrique Mendizabal, 05/11/2009
  6. »  More

China -new or just different?

The Global Development Network's (GDN) 2010 Annual Conference focused on the effects of the financial crisis on global and regional integration. China was a common thread across all sessions and debates. Everything from eager expectation from pa...   Read more>>

Posted by Enrique Mendizabal on 20/02/2010


Strategy and Complexity

  1. »  Video interviews from 'Innovation Dialogue: Strategy and Complexity'
    Louise Stoddard, 07/12/2009
  2. »  Conference cartoons
    Pepijn Jansen, 07/12/2009
  3. »  Reflections on day one
    Lena Müller, 02/12/2009
  4. »  Conference cartoon: Safe-fail experimenting?
    Pepijn Jansen, 02/12/2009
  5. »  Conference cartoons
    Pepijn Jansen, 01/12/2009
  6. »  More

More video interviews from 'Innovation Dialogue: Strategy and Complexity'

Jeroen Warner and Annelies Heijmans (Wageningen UR Disasters Studies Group) facilitated a round table on 'Complexity in disaster and conflict situations'. Jeroen: 'In disaster situations, interactions can be complex or complicated. Complex situa...   Read more>>

Posted by Louise Stoddard on 07/12/2009


Frans Bieckmann

  1. »  Hillary Clinton on new US development policy
    Frans Bieckmann, 11/01/2010
  2. »  More urbanization
    Frans Bieckmann, 11/01/2010
  3. »  Prince Claus
    Frans Bieckmann, 16/12/2009
  4. »  Jeroen de Lange in our next issue
    Frans Bieckmann, 13/12/2009
  5. »  Cities are the playgrounds or battlegrounds
    Frans Bieckmann, 09/12/2009
  6. »  More

45 minutes

Yesterday, the Davids Commission – a high-level group of independent experts appointed by the government – presented its report into the Dutch decision-making process regarding the invasion of Iraq in 2003. This came after a year of research, in...   Read more>>

Posted by Frans Bieckmann on 13/01/2010


Thea Hilhorst

  1. »  The secret of social change after disaster
    Thea Hilhorst, 10/12/2009
  2. »  Silence around the food summit
    Thea Hilhorst, 23/11/2009
  3. »  Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars.
    Thea Hilhorst, 14/11/2009
  4. »  Corruption in Afghanistan, or the hypocrisy of international politics
    Thea Hilhorst, 08/11/2009
  5. »  A visit to Hebron - seen it with my own eyes
    Thea Hilhorst, 11/10/2009
  6. »  More

Hillary Clinton and Amartya Sen on food security

In my last week at Columbia, I was fortunate to attend two events (and make pictures!). I heard Hillary Clinton speak about the American version of the 3-D approach, and today I had the honour of listening to Amartya Sen. Interestingly, both add...   Read more>>

Posted by Thea Hilhorst on 12/12/2009


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