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Why reducing inequality is an economic imperative
Stewart Lansley | 27 October 2024The shift from wages to profits has led to an increase in inequality over the last three decades.
read moreThe rise of finance undermines employment growth
Ken-Hou Lin | 14 October 2024The stagnation in labour demand in the US is linked to the rise of finance. Strategies to encourage long-term employment growth must be found in that direction too.
read moreExcessive debt endangers real economy firms and workers
Eileen Appelbaum | 12 August 2025By their excessive use of debt, private equity companies in the US increase the risk of bankruptcy of real economy companies they acquire.
read moreHow excessive inequality bit the rich North
Tom van der Lee | May 02, 2025In one of the chapters in the book ‘Het crisisdiner' (The Crisis Dinner, published in Dutch, February 2014), Oxfam Novib director Tom van der Lee writes about the impact of inequality in the United States and Europe on the current economic downtur...
read moreTax-free poverty reduction?
Niels Keijzer , Timo Mahn | 18 April 2025Global efforts to counter tax avoidance by multinational companies call for a rethink of policies on the taxation of aid workers and development projects.
read moreThe risk of a jobless recovery in Southern Europe
Javier Andrés | 31 March 2025The key to avoiding the risk of a jobless recovery in Southern Europe lies in the combination of wage flexibility and human capital accumulation.
read moreMore appreciation, less manipulation
Henk Jochemsen | 24 July 2025Fundamental systemic change is needed, starting with a cultural paradigm shift based on appreciation of our environment.
read morePlanet earth is wage-led!
Özlem Onaran | 17 June 2025Economic growth should go hand in hand with an improvement in wage share and vice versa. However, current economic policy does not.
read moreThe inequality of macroeconomic risk
Nick Galasso | 27 May 2025Food price hikes, natural disasters, environmental degradation, and financial crises share at least two things in common: They’re on the rise, and they unequally burden the poor.
read moreInequality should be of central concern to advanced economies
Roel van Engelen | 06 March 2025The economic crisis is being handled in a way that benefits a small and wealthy group of technocratic European politicians, investors and entrepreneurs. It therefore appears to serve as an instrument to cut down on democracy and to increase inequa...
read moreINGOs: being right or relevant?
Duncan Green | 08 December 2024Normally I avoid discussions about the future of NGOs like the plague – they either involve a bunch of academics with only the vaguest idea of what we actually do all day, or a lot of senior managers emitting sonorous pronouncements on how we need...
read moreInternational resourcefulness now
Michiel Verweij | 28 November 2024While Busan is hosting a high level discussion on aid effectiveness, doubts are mounting on the very concept of development aid itself.
read moreReducing inequality is crucial to global recovery
Richard Jolly | 25 October 2024Sir Richard Jolly discusses why the reduction of inequality is crucial for economic growth and greater prosperity
read moreTrade negotiations limit re-regulation of financial markets
Evert-jan Quak | 20 September 2024Last week I had the opportunity to speak with Myriam Vander Stichele, a dedicated senior researcher at the Amsterdam-based Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations. She spoke about this week’s WTO Public Forum discussing “Seeking answers...
read moreSlow progress on Paris Declaration
Denis Burke | 19 September 2024The IOB (de Inspectie Ontwikkelingssamenwerking en Beleidsevaluatie) convened a meeting on the Evaluation of the Paris Declaration on September 5th 2011 at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague.
read moreThe gist of the matter is in the interconnections
Nicky Pouw | 15 September 2024How much inequality are we prepared to accept, asks Nicky Pouw. If we can't live together, we are going to die alone.
read moreHow excessive inequality undermines democracy
Evert-jan Quak | 10 August 2025England has been in the grip of looting, rioting and vandalism during the past days. And being in England at the moment - with BBC News on in the background - I’m reading a speech by Professor of Economics at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Pa...
read moreThe euro: a straightjacket?
Jojanneke Spoor | 26 June 2025Andy Storey, lecturer at University College Dublin and chairperson of Action from Ireland, questions the validity of the euro. He argues that the monetary union was designed to foreclose democracy....
read moreInclusive Economy blog
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read moreGlobal development blog
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read moreCurrent global affairs
February 02, 2025The 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...
read moreUK government does not cut development budget
20 October 2024Owen Barder writes in his latest blog post about the spending plans for the coming four years the Conservative government in the UK presented yesterday. ‘Overall, this spending review is a seismic political event’, Barder writes, with spending cut...
read moreEcological economics and short term crises (ISEE 2010)
Peter H. May | 26 August 2025Does Ecological Economics have the ability to cope with short term crises of the capitalist economy, if we are primarily concerned with long-term cumulative phenomena, coevolutionary responses both by nature and institutions?A key area for our wor...
read moreVIDEO - The challenges ahead (ISEE 2010)
23 August 2025ISEE President John Gowdy talks to The Broker about the challenges ahead in the field of ecological economics at the 2010 ISEE conference 'Advancing Sustainability in a Time of Crisis' in Oldenburg and Bremen, Germany, August 2010....
read moreIt’s the sustainable economy, stupid
Marco Witschge | 24 June 2025Momentarily we find ourselves on the highway of one economic crisis leading to another. We are busy bandaging our ill economy where a short-term focus determines the vision at the cost of the long-term consequences. You don’t need to be a socialis...
read moreThe Degrowth argument: what has changed from the 1970´s?
Tom Green | 28 March 2025On Sunday I join the working group on political strategies. The two dozen people assembled in the courtyard repeatedly return to a big question that begs a satisfactory answer in order to develop viable political strategies for degrowth. Back in...
read moreDoes economic de-growth offer a bright future?
Joan Martinez-Alier | 24 March 2025Could de-growth reduce poverty and avoid climate change? A scientific study coordinated by researchers of the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona has recently argued that “The solution both t...
read moreRedeveloping finance
October 26, 2024The financial crisis has prompted a discussion on the re-structuring of the world’s financial system.
read moreEurope's International Role
September 22, 2024The decisions that are made in the autumn of 2009 will shape Europe’s international role in the future.
read moreAndrew Fischer: Reclaiming the MDG agenda
Andrew M. Fischer | 26 June 2025In my last blog I discussed the fact that poverty and even rights-based agendas can be easily co-opted into a 'Washington Consensus' policy paradigm. How then can we avoid this propensity? In my background paper I suggested that this should be don...
read moreMarieke Hounjet: Live from Brussels II: Is This a Bretton Woods Moment?
Marieke Hounjet | 22 June 2025Marieke Hounjet is reporting live from the Brussels Forum for The BrokerThe second plenary of the High Level Policy Forum today in Brussels was titled: ‘What are the key meta-processes shaping development over the next 10-15 years and what do they...
read moreAndy Sumner: Why 'After 2015'?
Andy Sumner | 18 June 2025I’d like to blog on the ‘After 2015’ theme from the point of view of having co-led the 23 June with colleagues and friends at IDS, The Broker, ActionAid, DSA, and EADI.Looking for key emergent themes I’ve also just re-read the special policy brief...
read moreEconomists discuss the financial crisis
Romesh Vaitilingam | May 26, 2025Increasingly, researchers are debating issues on the Internet, through blogs and other forums, rather than just in journals and at conferences. Each issue of The Broker will now include an ‘Online debate’ section, which provides summaries of exper...
read moreEditiorial: Crisis? What crisis?
Frans Bieckmann | December 02, 2024Over the last four months, two events have changed global prospects profoundly. The financial crisis has done more than just shake the seemingly most powerful and inviolable countries, companies and institutions in the world. It has definitely KO’...
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