The European Report on Development (ERD) is intended to improve the visibility of the EU at the global level and help it shape the international development agenda. Little of the research done at European institutes reaches international policy di...

In the second part of this special report we launch the public discussion on the evaluation of the Dutch policy for Africa over the last decade. Here we bring together a selection of the views of 20 Africa specialists and development experts who c...

The mid-1990s was a time of change, with the end of the Cold War, shifting international relations and emerging new regional conflicts in Africa. In the Netherlands, following a review of Dutch foreign policy in 1996, the Ministry of Foreign Affai...

Does development aid support technological learning and innovation? Or are market linkages (international trade and foreign direct investment, FDI) a better boost for the development of technological capabilities in, say, Yemen, Togo or Cambodia?...

The Broker is currently hosting an international debate on the thorny questions that surround the politics of aid and poverty alleviation. The contributors agree that pro-poor policies affect the interests of many groups, not only the poor, and ar...

The July 2007 issue of the journal Economic Policy is devoted to ‘global imbalances and aid’. Four of the papers, by economists Paul Krugman, Jeffrey Frankel, Philip Lane and William Easterly, were prepared for a special economic policy conference...

Poverty and politics are inextricably linked. The new Netherlands Minister for Development Cooperation, Bert Koenders, sees it as one of his main challenges to ‘bring back politics’ into international development cooperation. At a meeting with min...

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.

China has an increasingly influential voice in global issues such as world trade, conflict management, energy supply security and sustainable development. In June 2006, the Netherlands government presented a policy memorandum, Shaping a Relationsh...

On 20 and 21 April 2007, the Social Sciences and Law faculties of the Free University of Amsterdam hosted an international conference ‘Shaking up citizenship’. This promised to be an interdisciplinary exploration of how globalization affects citiz...