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Pathways to inclusive development need to be informed by more than economic growth models alone.

Broadening the debt-led accumulation system means that claims on future income and production are used to solve today’s problems while lessons learnt from past crises are wilfully ignored.

After a few years of crisis-born reticence, the European Commission is back in love with the financial sector. Presented as a way of stimulating the dragging economic growth in the EU, the Commission has recently proposed a series of new financial…

The Broker has launched a new dossier: The European Middle Class under the programme Inclusive Economy Europe.

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…

Linking precarious work to the debate on income inequality shows that precarious work not only affects the ‘losers’ of globalization, but also the ‘winners’.

Evidence shows that technological change and productivity growth do not only destroy jobs in Europe and the US, but also create them.

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

How the European Union is slowly disintegrating through a lack of democracy.

Over 200 million people worldwide are officially unemployed and looking for work. A much larger number of people, however, has a job, but one that is uncertain, unstable and precarious and does not help them out of poverty. Rising economic growth…

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…

The fishing dispute between India and Sri Lanka is not only an issue of sovereignty, but also reflects social and economic problems.

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

Inclusive growth happens only when people have been empowered and when political and economic institutions play a much greater role in the economy.

Do alternative monetary models have the power to increase social inclusion? We should not be too optimistic.  

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.

Economists seem to find it difficult to accept different schools of economic thought. But pluralism in economic thinking is the solution to the complexity of the real world that surrounds us.

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.

Day one of the conference Economics for a Better World ended with a number of interesting presentations on how to achieve real progress. This is a task not only for governments but also for the private sector.

This is the first blog post in a series from the OECD conference Economics for a Better World. Happiness versus wellbeing, are we talking about the same thing?

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

A top-down approach is unlikely to face the challenges of seasonal and poorly developed rural food markets. 

Cooperation with private corporations is a serious threat to the human right to water.

Organic farms in Africa, Asia and Latin America proved to generate higher yields, reduced labour costs, more variety in livestock, and more food security for small farmers.

Farmers need to organize and operate as a business unit, to receive knowledge on value chains prices more equally. 

It is crucial to be aware of deeply-rooted gender structures and to create gender-equity in land tenure, in order to guarentee both water and food security.

Our economy is shaped by our culture, Michiel Schwarz argues. The "sustainist" culture that is emerging will fuel a shift in economic orientation and the rise of an "ethononomics".

Ethics have become a non-market good, argues Katherine Zobre, but we can reclaim it. 

In Africa, economic growth and GDP are still of the utmost importance and are a necessary condition for real wellbeing, argues Dirk Bol. 

Editor Evert-jan Quak comments and reflects on new research, publications, blog posts, conferences and current affairs in the field of inclusive and sustainable economy.

The pursuit of endless growth and the ensuing global financial crisis have eroded public trust in economic policy. As a result, an increasing number of economists are advocating a more inclusive global economy.

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 global food system is a sick patient, suffering from unequal distribution and excessive liberalization. Indeed, there is a striking parallel between the 2007-08 food crisis and the financial crisis. How big a hand did financial speculation on…

It is now widely recognized that GDP has many shortcomings as an indicator of social welfare. It is time for macroeconomists and policy makers to finally take action.

The Green Economy is one of the key themes to be addressed by the UNCSD summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012. But what is exactly the concept of a green economy?

Growth for growth’s sake is no longer an option. Ecological economists are calling for a ‘green’ revision of incentives and investments, as the starting point for achieving societies that are sustainable in environmental, social as well as economi…

Sustained and widespread future prosperity will require basic reforms in global governance and in macroeconomic science. Such reforms will not be easy, as they require entirely new ways of thinking.

Some countries have shifted resources to stimulate ‘green economy’ opportunities, looking to capitalize on societal concerns about the spillovers of profligate consumption during the recent speculative bubble. Under the banner of a ‘Global Green N…

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