The Broker magazine features expert contributions at the forefront of international development debates. Our stories go beyond mainstream discussions, putting new or different developments into perspective.
About the magazine & archive Experts and authorsIn solving complex problems involving many different stakeholders, interdisciplinary research is indispensable. But cooperation between disciplines is not always easy. Since 2000 Wageningen University has funded a series of interdisciplinary research programmes. This article looks at the lessons that have been learned.
access_time 5 - 7 min
25 July, 2007
label_outline Development Policy
person Joris Tielens
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Codes of conduct are supposed to regulate working conditions in garment and sport shoe factories all over the world. Efforts to coordinate these voluntary initiatives have so far not been effective. Stronger and more binding initiatives are needed.
access_time 9 - 11 min
25 July, 2007
label_outline Development Policy
person Ellen Lammers
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Following the civil war in Lebanon (1975–1989) various multilateral donors initiated an ambitious programme of administrative reform. But they made a mess of it, concludes Nisrine El Ghaziri.
access_time 6 - 8 min
25 July, 2007
label_outline Development Policy
person Nada Mounzer
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Non-governmental development organizations are expected to focus on countries with poor governance. New evidence shows that they do not. While they do tend to focus more than bilateral donors on poor countries, they make some curious geographical choices. It seems that they too have their ‘donor darlings’.
access_time 14 - 16 min
25 July, 2007
label_outline Development Policy
person Dirk-Jan Koch
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