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More green investment can stimulate growth and employment in a crisis-ridden Europe, and reverse recent negative trends in the climate change mitigation progress.

The rush for African farmland has created new opportunities for political and customary institutions to extract rents from hitherto poorly monetized land resources. This has facilitated the formation of new alliances shaped around global capital….

In many countries the share of labour in national income has declined over the last three decades. As a result, the low and middle-income groups of people who depend the most on wages for their income are crumbling. Meanwhile, the rich elites who…

When rethinking public aid as a catalyst for development-oriented private investment, several elements need to be taken into account.

In spite of the ongoing euro crisis, which does not leave much space for an ambitious global agenda, the EU remains a major global development actor.

The rise of BRICS is changing Africa and has helped its rapid growth, but does not challenge the structure of political economy with political authoritarianism.

A green transformation should be a core element of the post-2015 agenda and achieving it will depend on whether we will be able to create the knowledge needed.

More diversification and better reinvestment of natural resource revenues can ensure that foreign investments in Africa contribute to inclusive growth.

An inclusive economy requires an inclusive financial system. But in South Sudan a focus on financial inclusion, for the time being, might be undesirable.

Farmers’ organizations spur specialization, increasing employment and income.

To achieve inclusive development the European Union (EU) needs to reframe its economic policy and reconsider politically sensitive issues.

Economic growth should go hand in hand with an improvement in wage share and vice versa. However, current economic policy does not.

How can we create a more inclusive economy and what obstacles lie in the way? This debate seeks answers.

To feed the world’s growing population in a sustainable and inclusive way with good quality food is one of the main tasks for our time. The solution lies partly at the local level: the livelihoods, and the cultural, socioeconomic, and environmenta…

Sharing Dutch agricultural expertise in lcoal partnerships can positively contribute to the eradication of rural poverty. 

Many small-scale farmers look for opportunities out of agriculture. The only way by doing this without increasing their food insecurity is rural employment. Farmer organisations can help, to spur up specialisation.

The monopoly of ideas produced by the West is over, South South cooperation is thriving. Power relations are shifting. It challenges everyones perspectives development and international cooperation, both in The West as in East and South.

Capacity building is not enough to make the not-for-profit partnerships between water utilities called Water Operators’ Partnerships (WOPs) by the United Nations successful to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. This peer-to-peer cooperation…

Since the first of January 2010, the water services of Paris have been provided by a single public operator, Eau de Paris. The old public-private company has been transformed into a public body, whose mission is to produce, transport, distribute a…

I truly believe in the Water Operators’ Partnership (WOP) concept. But there are always buts. Waternet has lots of experience in the international cooperation in the water sector. It appears to be hard to see a fruitful solution to fight poverty;…

In 2000, all 193 United Nations member states agreed to join efforts and encourage development by improving social and economic conditions in the world’s poorest countries. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were stated: ‘an ambitious list of…

Is water a commodity or a public good? Who can assume the right to open or close the water tap? This blog will focus on the public to public partnerships for water utilities.

Last week I had the opportunity to speak with Myriam Vander Stichele, a dedicated senior researcher at the Amsterdam-based Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations. She spoke about this week’s WTO Public Forum discussing “Seeking answers…

Probably you already have noticed that The Broker started a project called the “Bellagio Initiative: living well in the 21st century”. This is mainly an online debate on a series of questions related to the promotion of human wellbeing in general,…

The Broker has started a new series on Emerged States. We kicked off with the articles Turkey turns the tide and Brazil braves new waters. 

Paul Ekins said an environmental tax reform is necessary to achieve the goals of eco efficiency. He stressed that this would be a tax shift, not a tax increase.His research has shown that six EU countries (Denmark, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, S…

The financial crisis has prompted a discussion on the re-structuring of the world’s financial system. 

Throughout Africa, China is challenging the West, not only in terms of economic investments, but also through its development aid.