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Is the current recovery policy for the financial and economic crises in the Eurozone a genuine answer for the complexity and diversity of the problems that all member states face? Not really. The responses are too one-sided and mainly export and a...

How will the EU develop its role as an actor in an increasingly multipolar world? Next June we will know, when the EU High Representative Federica Mogherini presents her new global strategy for the European Union External Action Service.

Since the UN stabilisation mission arrived in Mali the humanitarian field has changed.

Today’s Europe seems barely equipped to tackle the challenges of the twenty-first century. It is time to lay a new political, economic and financial foundation for the European project.

Another Perspective is The Broker’s new blog. The title reflects The Broker’s ambition to look at globalization issues in different ways. Through this blog, we also keep our followers up to date on matters that concern us.

Another Perspective is The Broker’s new blog. The title reflects The Broker’s ambition to look at globalization issues in different ways. Through this blog, we also keep our followers up to date on matters that concern us.

Another Perspective is The Broker’s new blog. The title reflects The Broker’s ambition to look at globalization issues in different ways. Through this blog, we also keep our followers up to date on matters that concern us. The first blogpost will...

How to base policies on dynamic context analysis.

You can read it in the newspapers every day: national economies are not creating enough jobs and fewer quality jobs in the productive sectors. Globalization, automation and financialization of the economy have been identified as the drivers of cur...

List of sources for conflict and context analysis frameworks, outlining organisations with their corresponding analytical frameworks

The review of 88 frameworks for doing context analysis, originating from a broad range of sectors including development, military, research, policy and economics, shows that there are four aspects of analytical models that cover the breadth and de...

In the complex contexts of fragile or conflict-affected states, where international interventions can easily influence power relations, good context analysis is crucial. Systematically mapping these contexts allows international actors to work eff...

Egypt has invested in its female labour force since the 1960s. Yet women-led businesses remain rare. Alia El Mahdi provides insight into the underlying challenges and gives policy recommendations for the effective promotion of female entrepreneurs.

International trade can contribute to the creation of more and better jobs but not always, not for everyone, and not everywhere. Thirty years after the beginning of a global push for liberalization we are finally starting to understand the real co...

Specific policy is needed to respond to the loss of social control over employment.

The adverse effects of increased economic integration on job quality can be mitigated by flexicurity policies.

Inequality and declining job quality have been driven mainly by government policies, so reforming policy is now needed.

Making people producers of goods is strategic for growth and development.

What are the challenges, what are the options regarding youth unemployment in Africa?

The private sector is the primary generator of sustainable employment, so governments need to work to ensure that the environment for growth is promoted and maintained.

With a demographic shift ahead, Europe has to increase productivity and employment rates and structurally reform the labour market.

The central theme of The Broker Day 2014 on 14 April was employment and inequality, and the structural macroeconomic problems underlying them. The main speaker was Minister of Social Affairs and Employment and deputy prime minister Lodewijk Assche...

Recognizing employment as a fundamental human right is the most important policy to promote full employment.

Employment is a critical path to women’s economic empowerment, but it is by no means a simple relationship.

Elements of the decent work agenda can improve employment conditions worldwide, but current neo-liberalist policies are counterproductive.

To solve the structural problems related to unemployment, a radical policy shift is needed. Innovation policies must focus on job-intensive sectors. Governments must curb free capital flows with more regulation and stimulate financial institutions...

The creation of more decent jobs should be central to economic policies. The prevailing assumption that GDP growth alone will generate more decent work is not valid. And it obstructs the creation of a society in which labour serves and dignifies b...

Welcome to The Broker’s dossier on employment. Global employment trends can be confusing. For example, they show an increase in the numbers of unemployed people while at the same time an increase in the amount of jobs. Population growth alone cann...

The international discussion on the changing nature of jobs and employment is taking place on many levels. The table here contains a number of institutional reports, research papers and other sources that The Broker’s editors have found useful in...

Geopolitical action is required to cope with the enormous resource challenges that lie ahead.

Talk of ‘human security’ began to be heard soon after the end of the Cold War, amidst rising violence and social breakdown in Eastern Europe and Africa.  Its emergence coincided with the rise of stabilization as an aim of Western militar...

Now that the post-2015 agenda is developing into an integrated framework, how will it define the conflict paradigm?

How effective are China’s and India’s social policies in making growth more inclusive?

Guestblogger Pellini on evidence-based policy making in the debate on Syria in the British parliament.

Without the involvement of the poor and marginalized in the successor framework to the MDGs, it is unlikely that interventions will respond to their problems.

Global goals need global policies. Governments have more to win than lose if they join forces and agree upon a single post-2015 agenda.

The three-day conference Economics for a Better World has come to an end. In the future, we should invite more non-economists, like environmentalists and behavioural and social scientists.

In any situation, there is a chance you might lose and a chance you might win. We start a new blog on management of risks, within and beyond development cooperation.

The debate on wellbeing should not only inform but also be useful for policy-makers. Read the third article in this series from the OECD conference.

Disabled people can be included in society through work integration social enterprises. What are Japan’s lessons learned?

South American countries are experimenting with the social and solidarity economy (SSE) model. It’s time for the West to learn from them, argues Milford Bateman.

Discussions on what should be the new global agenda after the expiry of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) started years ago. The post-2015 agenda has been central in several previous debates on The Broker. This is a short synopsis of other r...

Water partnerships should be locally regulated through specific Basin Authorities, providing equal access for the inhabitants, based on long-term commitment from policymakers. 

New initiatives based on horizontally structured partnerships for rural development are more equal forms of rural development than traditional PPPs.

The EU biofuels policy has missed it change to mitigate global inequality. Instead, it has negative impacts on food security, poverty eradication and the climate.

Dutch food security policy builds on the expertise and knowledge of an active public and private agri-sector to enhance Dutch and global development through partnership.

Inequality is firmly back on the policy agenda in many parts of the world. Many believe it should have a prominent position on the post-2015 agenda. I disagree. Please let me explain why.

Focus is een centraal woord in het vocabulaire van staatssecretaris voor Ontwikkelingssamenwerking Ben Knapen. En terecht: een relatief kleine speler op het wereldtoneel als Nederland is, moet het zich concentreren op een beperkt aantal geografisc...

De staatssecretaris wil vijf kennisplatforms oprichten. Wie moeten daar in zitten? Hoe worden de onderzoeksvragen bepaald? Zullen zuidelijke deelnemers sterk genoeg zijn tegenover Nederlandse institutionele of economische belangen? Het antwoord op...

De kennisbrief die staatssecretaris Knapen op 14 november 2024 stuurde naar de Tweede Kamer staat niet op zich, maar komt voort uit een lange traditie waarin onderzoek en ontwikkeling in nauwe samenhang met elkaar staan.

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Patricia Almeida Ashley advocates for a participative policy making approach that embraces complexity thinking: from the mechanical view of "dots" towards the quantum physics view of  "waves"

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The blog ‘Current Global Affairs’ provides a window for reflection on news events, topical issues and developments. The blog focuses on the wider implications of current affairs, beyond the immediate impact of events as-they-unfold. Would you like...

The foreign policy chapter in the Rutte-Verhagen coalition agreement (Dutch/English) stresses the importance of preserving Dutch interests internationally, while emphasizing the significance of international solidarity in underpinning development...

The ISEE 2010 Tuesday sessions by Tim Jackson and Juliet Schor hit on the heart of the economic model (accumulation, growth and consumerism) by proposing innovative visions of how to reform capitalism towards human well-being.Before the talk start...

European Commission says ‘research lacking’ Christian Hudson, DG Environment of the European Commission, said at the Conference that eco-efficiency or resource efficiency is the way to go. A Task Force on the issue has been set this week.Road bloc...

Our increasingly interdependent world requires development policies that acknowledge the global context and address a new reality where a variety of actors as well as the state play a role. 

On 18 January 2010, the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) presented its report ‘Less pretension, more ambition: development aid that makes a difference’ to the Dutch Minister for Development Cooperation, Mr Bert Koenders

Africa’s diaspora is the continent’s greatest offshore asset. An estimated 3.3 million Africans, of whom 1 million come from sub-Sahara Africa, live in EU countries alone. They occupy a strategic position linking the developed North with their hom...

Contemporary conflicts are very different from the conflicts of the twentieth century like the two world wars and the Cold War. Yet it has taken a long time for policy makers to realize that these ‘new wars’ require a different policy approach. Ev...

The Broker invited two eminent researchers of contemporary civil war – Mary Kaldor of the London School of Economics and Stathis Kalyvas of Yale University – to share their views on these issues. Ten years ago, Mary Kaldor wrote her ground-breakin...

Crises, conflicts and emergencies are not simply deviations from normality, as is usually believed. Rather, there is much more continuity with normality. Often, crises are manifestations of, or they catalyze, intensified processes of change that w...

Policy makers and academics have different time horizons. That is one reason for their often limited dialogue. However, alignment and mutual reinforcement are necessary – especially in times of crisis.

In Brussels, economist Françoise Moreau heads the DG Development’s unit on ‘forward looking studies and policy coherence’. She is playing a central role in the initiative for the ERD.

Politicians are calling for evaluations that measure the effects of development cooperation. However, good development cooperation focuses on long-term processes that cannot be measured in terms of cause and effect. Alternative approaches to evalu...

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...