Reducing international income inequality
Charles Gore | 29 January 2025The specification of a new international income inequality goal will certainly be difficult. However, if rich-country fears of “the rise of the rest” can be replaced with a common commitment to a new economic and ecological convergence, global equ…
read moreNorthern Crises and Southern Development
Charles Gore | 19 December 2025The Broker was present at the annual conference of the Development Studies Association in London on 3 November to learn about the present state of the debate within the development studies community in the UK. During the discussion, five hot issue…
read moreCharles Gore: The birth of a new paradigm
Charles Gore | 21 June 2025I finished my blog yesterday by highlighting the need for a new development paradigm. This new paradigm may take up to five years to emerge and, from past experience of paradigm shifts, it will draw together ideas from existing theory and practice…
read moreCharles Gore: Not ‘MDGs or a New Paradigm’ but ‘MDGs in a New Paradigm’
Charles Gore | 20 June 2025In his famous 1955 article in which he hypothesized that national income inequality would increase in the early stages of economic development and subsequently decline as average per capita incomes rose, Simon Kuznets warned that poli…
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