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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Despite being the world’s second fastest-growing region, Africa’s challenge is translating this growth into broad-based improvements in well-being. SMEs development is key to change this.
access_time 4 - 6 min
11 September, 2014
label_outline Employment & Income
person Tara Sabre Collier
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In his 1963 speech to the United Nations General Assembly, the late US president John F. Kennedy expressed two ambitions for that decade: to commit to a manned moon mission and to end world poverty and hunger. On 21 July 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the moon. However, we still have not ended hunger.
access_time 3 - 5 min
8 September, 2014
label_outline Food Security
person Gerda Verburg
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The report of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing, launched on 8 August 2014, has missed an important opportunity to accomplish a breakthrough on the pressing questions of development finance.
access_time 7 - 9 min
5 September, 2014
label_outline Development Policy
person Arne Bartelsman Saskia Hollander
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In July 2014, the UN Open Working Group on Sustainable Development proposed a universal set of post-2015 goals and targets to succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
access_time 3 - 5 min
3 September, 2014
label_outline Development Policy
person Sarah Hearn
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