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.
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access_time 10 - 12 min
25 July, 2007
label_outline Development Policy
person Frans Bieckmann Mariëtte Heres
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As instruments of peacemaking, global institutions like the United Nations are not really popular. In the stiff ‘new-speak’ of the modern policy sciences we should evaluate these institutions in terms of their accountability, policy targets accomplished, customer orientation, governance-to-cost ratio and policy efficiency. This is unjustified.
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24 July, 2007
label_outline Peace & Security
person Ko Colijn
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On 20 June 2007 Bart Tromp died, at the age of 62. Just two weeks earlier, at 4 o’clock in the afternoon, I had been sitting with him under a luminous sky at a terrace at the Nieuwmarkt, in the oldest part of Amsterdam. We spoke for two hours. We had had been in contact before, by email and telephone, about the article he wrote for the first issue of
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24 July, 2007
label_outline Development Policy
person Frans Bieckmann
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Many western politicians are fond of giving public money to farmers to grow more food. A relatively recent phenomenon is to pay farmers to
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29 May, 2007
label_outline Food Security
person Erwin Bulte
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