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Global goals need global policies. Governments have more to win than lose if they join forces and agree upon a single post-2015 agenda.

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. 

In the international post-2015 discussion, inequality remains a sensitive issue. However, it should be addressed as a political issue that requires strong political will to tackle it.

Interview with Ted Schrecker: 'There is widespread recognition that the dynamics of the global economy work in the direction of increased inequality. And there is very little reason to expect that to change over the short term.'

The MDGs tend to disregard processes of change and the transformative power of that change. However, it is precisely that transformative power that is at the core of development issues, the primary goal of most development cooperation and the diff...

Like all contributors to the debate so far, I am convinced that inequality should be an important theme on anyone’s development agenda. But the label ‘post-2015 development agenda’ has a very specific referent, and opinions differ if inequality sh...

Food security is back on the political agenda. In recent years some important reports were published, of which a lot make references to the mulitdisciplinary task to secure good quality of food and nutrition for the growing world population. If yo...

Bringing work and workplaces to the center of attention restores citizens to their rightful position as the agents of a democratic way of life.  In work-centered democracy attention to inequality of agency everywhere – not simply formal polit...

This morning I took part in a very interesting session that reignited my enthusiasm for the Bellagio Initiative. People, power, politics was the title of our get-together.

My worries, phrased in yesterday’s post, have been taken away today. I was afraid that the concept of wellbeing might create more confusion, instead of serving as a unifier that creates a broad and common target to work towards. 

Op 21 september 2024 bespraken experts tijdens een consultatiebijeenkomst het nieuwe kennisbeleid op het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken. Lees hier het verslag van de middagsessie.

Op 21 september 2024 organiseerde het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken een consultatiebijeenkomst over het nieuwe kennisbeleid. Lees hier het verslag van de ochtendsessie.

Op 14 november 2024 stuurde Staatssecretaris Ben Knapen de kennisbrief naar de Tweede Kamer. Het nieuwe kennisbeleid zich zal concentreren op vijf kennisplatforms. Lees hieronder de gehele brief of via deze link.

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

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On 23 June 2009, the Residence Palace in Brussels hosted the High Level Policy Forum ‘After 2015: promoting pro-poor growth after the MDGs’. The forum was a joint initiative of IDS, DSA, EADI, DFID and ActionAid.