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Indigenous rights and investment fights: can development banks be held responsible?
Lisa Juanola , Max Méndez Beck , Fenna Hoefsloot | 31 March 2025The Council of Indigenous and Popular Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) has been fighting for years against the construction of the Agua Zarca Dam, a project financed by several large international development banks. The recent assassination of C...
▶Let investment work for employment
Evert-jan Quak, Annemarie van de Vijsel | May 21, 2025On 15 May, The Broker and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs co-organized an expert meeting with the International Finance Corporation (IFC). The 25 participants – a mix of researchers from knowledge institutes, civil servants and representativ...
▶Governing the land rush in Africa
George C. Schoneveld | March 20, 2025The rush for African farmland has created new opportunities for political and customary institutions to extract rents from hitherto poorly monetized land resources. This has facilitated the formation of new alliances shaped around global capital....
▶BRICs, agriculture and food security in Africa
Renu Modi | 24 October 2024Foreign direct investment can become a catalyst for modernizing Africa’s low-technology subsistence agriculture if it is placed within a broader national strategy on rural development that gives priority to improving the productivity of local farm...
▶A renewed global partnership for Africa
Carlos Lopes | 12 August 2025A new global partnership can provide the impetus for tackling the development challenges that Africa is facing. It must therefore be mutually beneficial, promote the autonomy of its states and address its developmental priorities.
▶A renewed global partnership for Africa
Carlos Lopes | 12 August 2025A new global partnership can provide the impetus for tackling the development challenges that Africa is facing. It must therefore be mutually beneficial, promote the autonomy of its states and address its developmental priorities.
▶We need the private sector
Christopher Purdy | 01 August 2025If we want to increase jobs and reduce poverty, we must emphasize the private sector's role in development.
▶Diversifying foreign investment in Africa
Abdoul Mijiyawa | 17 July 2025More diversification and better reinvestment of natural resource revenues can ensure that foreign investments in Africa contribute to inclusive growth.
▶The (im)possibility of financial inclusion in South Sudan
Mattijs Renden , Emma Kandelaars , Resi Janssen | 04 July 2025An inclusive economy requires an inclusive financial system. But in South Sudan a focus on financial inclusion, for the time being, might be undesirable.
▶Making a world fit for inclusive development
David Woodward | 29 June 2025Ensuring sufficient resources for public expenditure that are needed to spur economic transition means an ambitious global agenda. To start with the tax regime.
▶The new scramble for Africa
Jojanneke Spoor | 05 June 2025Yao Graham expresses his concern about the new scramble for Africa at the TNI Fellows Meeting 2011. Graham is the Executive Director of the Third World Network, a research and advocacy organisation based in Accra, Ghana....
▶Inclusive Economy blog
June 21, 2025Editor 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 myths of global land grabbing untangled
Evert-jan Quak | 03 April 2025This week the three-day international conference on Global Land Grabbing will start in Brighton, United Kingdom. Land grabbing has been an issue for some years now, but the focus among academics seems to be changing. This is the outcome of the “Th...
▶Learning the ropes
Gerd Junne, Vidya Marapin | February 09, 2025What are the best ways of creating sustainable economic development in post-conflict states? Gerd Junne and Vidya Marapin review five books in search of viable strategies.
▶Redeveloping finance
October 26, 2024The financial crisis has prompted a discussion on the re-structuring of the world’s financial system.
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