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Now the process of agreeing a new set of sustainable and inclusive development goals is reaching its decisive phase, the middle-income countries (MICs) are threatened to be mostly left out of the agenda. Even though 75% of the global poor live in...

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There are two critical issues in this inequality debate: there is no global benchmark for inequality and no global goals in absolute terms; and the instruments for tackling inequality lie outside traditional aid intervention models.

Peacebuilding has to be centre stage at the high-level debate on aid effectiveness in Busan.

The Broker, in cooperation with the OECD, invites you to contribute to this blog about the challenges of the coming HLF on aid effectivess at Busan. 

Het AIV-advies over de ‘post-2015’ agenda voor mondiale ontwikkeling zet een andere toon dan eerdere, invloedrijke rapporten van de WRR. Daarmee creëert het een basis voor een interessant debat tussen een aantal verschillende paradigma’s over ontw...

The Broker will publish interesting publications and current affairs in de field of global development.

I welcome Andy Sumner’s lucid article on the fact that most of the world's poor now live in middle-income countries and what that means for development.I agree with Sumner that this brings microeconomic issues, inequality in particular, to the for...

Andy Sumner’s research on the new bottom billion has been on the lips of almost every development professional I know for the last few months. The revelation that 75% of poor people might actually live in middle-income, rather than low-income coun...

960 million or 72% of the world's poor live in middle income countries

In this contribution we directly address the four queries posed for the debate. To do so we need to note at the outset that from a development perspective it can easily be argued that the adoption of the MDGs by the world community in September 20...

As Andy Sumner has stated in his article of 26th May, 2009 “Rethinking Development Policy 2015”, the MDGs are viewed as a set of indicators for guiding poverty reduction and for holding international agencies and governments accountable to citizen...

Editor in Chief Frans Bieckmann will update an editor's blog reflecting on the thought processes behind production of The Broker and highlighting interesting, useful and unusual information that he comes across day to day

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It, by Paul Collier. Oxford University Press, 2007.A review by Paul Hoebink.

We see two major issues that Europe could and should address as a matter of some urgency: combating European donor proliferation, and harmonizing policy analysis and policy dialogue. Both aspects relate to the Development Assistance Committee (DAC...

One of the hot books in international development circles at the moment is Paul Collier’s The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It, by Paul Collier, formerly of the World Bank and currently director o...