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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

Paul Engel: Meer Europa, minder Nederland?

Paul Engel is director of the European Centre for Development Management (ECDPM). Met ‘Minder pretentie, meer ambitie’ schept de WRR een kader voor het actuele debat over van de rol van de Nederlandse ontwikkelingshulp. De R...   Read more>>

Posted by Paul Engel on 08/02/2010


Janelle Ward

  1. »  Special issue on Citizens’ Media and Communication: Development in Practice
    Janelle Ward, 18/01/2010
  2. »  NGOs and the News: Exploring a Changing Communications Landscape
    Janelle Ward, 20/11/2009
  3. »  A comment on the challenges of implementing social media
    Janelle Ward, 08/11/2009
  4. »  The social media hype
    Janelle Ward, 18/10/2009
  5. »  Internet research
    Janelle Ward, 12/10/2009
  6. »  More

Haiti, online donations and social networking

The recent tragedy in Haiti left citizens in other parts of the world eager to help. Most people, unskilled in disaster relief and not possessing emergency medical training, turned to donations of either money or goods. Aid and develop...   Read more>>

Posted by Janelle Ward on 02/02/2010


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 sit...   Read more>>

Posted by Louise Stoddard on 07/12/2009


Enrique Mendizabal

  1. »  Waiting in Dubai
    Enrique Mendizabal, 29/12/2009
  2. »  Taxi Taxi
    Enrique Mendizabal, 23/12/2009
  3. »  Good for Development
    Enrique Mendizabal, 19/11/2009
  4. »  Ask a researcher to pick a policy problem...
    Enrique Mendizabal, 05/11/2009
  5. »  Leadership
    Enrique Mendizabal, 31/10/2009
  6. »  More

The conflict is in the seas

The conflict is in the seas. Not the jungle. Everyone looks at the jungle. The NGOs, the media, researchers, donors. Everyone. But the real problem. Where most oil explorations are having the most effect on local populations is in the ocean. O...   Read more>>

Posted by Enrique Mendizabal on 15/01/2010


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 re...   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 a...   Read more>>

Posted by Thea Hilhorst on 12/12/2009


Family farming first

  1. »  Do not romanticize family farming
    Rudy Rabbinge, 07/12/2009
  2. »  Let science serve farmers
    Fabio Kessler Dal Soglio, 07/12/2009
  3. »  Family farming can address the needs of Planet Earth
    Fabio Dal Soglio, 02/12/2009
  4. »  More

Constraints to farmers' entrepreneurship in Ghana

Hans Eenhoorn used to be a member of the UN Task Force on Hunger and finished an assignment as associate professor of food security and entrepreneurship at Wageningen University Thanks, colleagues, for pointing to the opportunit...   Read more>>

Posted by Hans Eenhoorn on 07/12/2009


Navigating the Anthropocene

  1. »  The earth system governance dream
    Ruben Zondervan, 07/12/2009
  2. »  Three ways for social science to help the environment
    Sara Hughes, 07/12/2009
  3. »  Democracy and earth system governance: empowered space and contestation
    Kathrin Dombrowski, 06/12/2009
  4. »  It is about commitment
    Pedro Fidelman, 06/12/2009
  5. »  Climate environmental problems and economic growth
    Pedro Fidelman, 06/12/2009
  6. »  More

Video interviews from Earth Systems Governance conference

These videos show participants and speakers at the Earth Systems Governance conference taking part in ‘chair chat’, a structured interview about their perspectives from the event, filmed by Amy Hochstetler. For the full collection of interview...   Read more>>

Posted by Louise Stoddard on 23/12/2009


Redeveloping finance

  1. »  Implications of the Global Crisis for the ACP-EU Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs)
    Sanoussi Bilal, 07/12/2009
  2. »  Behind the glitter of the diamond
    Astha Kapoor, 27/11/2009
  3. »  The asymmetry between economic and social effects
    Rolph van der Hoeven, 19/11/2009
  4. »  Who’s to blame for global imbalances?
    Evert-jan Quak, 16/11/2009
  5. »  I come to bury globalization not to praise it
    Peter van Bergeijk, 10/11/2009
  6. »  More

Financialisation embroils developing countries

Costas Lapavitsas is Professor in Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London and specialised in the theory of banking and finance.* The crisis of 2007-2009 arose after the burst of an...   Read more>>

Posted by Costas Lapavitsas on 21/12/2009


Germany: Turn or Equal?

Challenges: the new development policy in Germany

Wilfried Steen was member of the board of directors of the Church Development Service (EED) from its foundation in 1999 until August 2009. He was responsible for inland and personnel programmes. During the 1990s, he was the chief executi...   Read more>>

Posted by Wilfried Steen on 14/12/2009


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