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There is limited knowledge about what does and what does not work to boost SME growth and create jobs. We need to keep searching for better answers.

During the EADI conference, The Broker had an exclusive interview with Branko Milanovic, Professor at the City University New York and economist for the World Bank specialized in inequality.

With only a quarter of the world’s population having access to social protection, the case for expanding it is gaining ground in international discussions. The debate focuses on how best to design social protection, whether it should be universal...

The new World Bank strategy must take risk and uncertainty into account.

If there is one thing that must be done, then that is to cancel the public debts of developing countries.

Will the BRICS Development Bank’s constructive capacities overcome its destructive ones? The world is watching.

Small business are crucial in creating an inclusive economy. But the World Bank’s Doing Business Report does not focus on the most important issues they face.

A large number of reports and papers have been published as part of the discussions on the post-2015 development framework. In this table we present an overview of the most significant publications, with links to the full texts. They were written...

At the end of the 1990s I wrote a lot about the alter-globalization movement. The movement really hit the headlines with the mass protests in Seattle and Washington and later in Prague and Genoa, and with the first gatherings of the World Social F...

Economics follows politics, not the other way around. Until we have a genuine political commitment to resolve global inequality, we will not get the economics we need. 

Recently many reports have been published on the role of water in the post-2015 global development agenda. As The Broker’s ‘prioritising water’ consultation aims to provide a multidisciplinary and integrated approach towards water, below you can f...

Partnerships have much to contribute to develop capacity. Yet, not all partnerships are the same. Where public-private partnerships have failed to meet the expectations, public-public partnerships are emerging as valuable alternative.

In recent years, the World Bank, IMF and the OECD have changed their position on inequality. But to what extent has their recent focus on inequality been directly translated into policy recommendations and measures? And what might the underlying m...

I have some good and some not so good news about aid. First, the good news. The aid landscape has seen three important changes during the last decade that have had a transformative, positive effect onthe very nature of aid.

As many of those gathered here in Busan, I feel very excited about the chance we have to collectively shape the way in which development is practiced.

Today, the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness has opened in Busan, Korea. The HLF4 is an opportunity for the global development community to come together and showcase the results that our partner countries have been producing, and to sh...

According to the State Secretary’s letter, the chief reason for introducing his new measures is to improve the quality of policy through better knowledge and its management, including quality control (‘bewaking van de wetenschappelijke kwaliteit’)...

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

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

Development Economics through the Decades. A critical look at 30 years of the World Development Report, by Shahid Yusuf. The World Bank Publications, 2009.A review by Marco Zupi.