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At the moment I am in Cairo to listen to the stories of the revolution. It is amazing how eager people are to recount their experiences. Tahrir square itself has returned to the normal routine of traffic jams. Only some graffiti and a few tanks in...

The new bottom billion has reshaped the demographics of poverty. This calls for a renewed development narrative, one that focuses on inequality and shared responsibility.

The victory of the Tea Party in the United States, the referenda in Switzerland on the ban of minarets and the deportation of convicted foreigners, the huge success of Thilo Sarrazin in Germany, who argued that Germany was compromising itself in h...

Who is leading whom? And how? And: Where does leadership take place? I remember a picture taken during the decisive night on December 18th last year in Copenhagen. It showed the final negotiation round. Who was negotiating? You could see President...

  In his famous 1955 article in which he hypothesized that national income inequality would increase in the early stages of economic development and subsequently decline as average per capita incomes rose, Simon Kuznets warned that poli...

Burkinabé writer and politician Joseph Ki-Zerbo said,‘On ne développe pas, on se développe’ (‘People aren’t developed; people develop themselves’). He argued for a development strategy ‘that gets its force from local realities and our own values,...