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Henk Molenaar

Henk Molenaar

Henk Molenaar is executive director at WOTRO Science for Global Development.

Light on Development

The post-MDG agenda should be based on an alternative theory of development, leading to a simple framework of only three complementary goals: reducing global inequalities, abandoning growth, and enhancing trust.

Kansen en valkuilen voor het kennisbeleid

Het Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken staat op het punt een nieuw kennisbeleid voor ontwikkeling te introduceren. Er is lang naar uitgekeken. Zal dit een nieuw elan geven aan het ontwikkelingsbeleid en zorgen voor wat meer ambitie?

The nature of development lies in social integration

According to Henk Molenaar, we are in need of a single, powerful concept to rival growth as development paradigm.

Overcoming growth by focusing on social integration

We are indeed in need of a new development paradigm, Henk Molenaar argues. Compared to the simplicity and intuitive clarity of the concept of growth, the ever more sophisticated indices we are developing to measure wellbeing are not going to do the trick of overthrowing growth as the central paradigm of development.

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