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Filling the skill gaps
Karina Ufert | 18 November 2024Skill gaps and effective pairing of education with labour market needs remain one of the most pressing obstacles for SME development in Africa.
read moreCan "Massive Open Online Courses" help improve employability?
Wipada Panichpathom , Clara Franco , Dilnoza Nigmonova | 10 October 2024Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a new learning phenomenon in the world of higher education and digital technology. Especially for developing countries, they are portrayed as a great opportunity for free education, boosting the employabilit...
read moreIt's not just the economy, stupid
Caroline Reeg , Markus Loewe | 01 October 2024Upgrading a micro enterprise to a small or medium-sized business requires more than a good business environment.
read moreThe next industrial revolution
Julie Madigan | 29 July 2025Changes in the global economy and in technology influence employment in the manufacturing sector, especially by requiring new skills.
read moreCreating jobs by investing in people
Erik Bjørsted | 13 May 2025Europe has to start investing in people instead of destroying its growth potential if it wants to create more and better jobs.
read moreHalf full or half empty?
Arthur Muliro | 12 May 2025What are the challenges, what are the options regarding youth unemployment in Africa?
read moreEurope needs structural skills-oriented labour market reforms
Jörg Peschner | 24 April 2025With a demographic shift ahead, Europe has to increase productivity and employment rates and structurally reform the labour market.
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 moreFull employment: moral necessity and achievable goal
Garry Jacobs , Ivo Šlaus | 26 March 2025Recognizing employment as a fundamental human right is the most important policy to promote full employment.
read moreRevaluing labour
Evert-jan Quak | February 26, 2025The belief that economic growth– together with low inflation rates, technological innovations and good education–is enough to create all the jobs a country needs, is in decline. The reality now is that technology is improving so fast that better e...
read moreCreating a global labour market
Niels Beerepoot | February 24, 2025Who benefits or loses from globalization is no longer based on the sector in which one works or the skill group one belongs to. Ongoing technological innovations have enabled greater global competition for a number of jobs. The key challenge for i...
read moreSegmented laud of partnerships
Vanessa Nigten | 03 December 2024If one message should be taken from the European Development Days it is that the world will not be able to tackle its many future economic, social and ecological challenges without sustainable development partnerships.
read moreEducation for equality
Dawood Mamoon , Syed Mansoob Murshed | 27 November 2024Developing countries should go for regional trading agreements until they raise the overall skill levels of their populations.
read moreA critical review
Bartholomew Armah | 04 November 2024Although the MDGs have certainly facilitated progress in Africa's development, sustaining this progress comes with national, regional and global challenges.
read moreMore is not always better
Markus Loewe | 08 October 2024If we want the new global development agenda to be manageable, it is perhaps better to design a small set of end goals similar to the original MDGs, instead of a new wish list.
read moreSocial policy: is it making a difference?
Arjan de Haan | 12 September 2024How effective are China’s and India’s social policies in making growth more inclusive?
read moreWhat have we learned?
Amarakoon Bandara | 15 August 2025Although the MDGs are arguably the most politically important pact ever made for international development, they harbor several lessons for their successor framework.
read moreSuffering in silence: sexual violence against men in conflict
Karlijn Muiderman | 10 August 2025A recent UN workshop highlighted the ‘blind spot’ of men and boys as victims of sexual violence in conflict.
read moreWe 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.
read moreShould inequality be reflected in the new international development goals?
Adam Wagstaff | 29 March 2025The last few months have been a busy time for inequality. And over the last few days the poor thing got busier still. Inequality is now dancing on two stages. It must be really quite dizzy.
read moreBiocultural diversity valorization of food systems
Claudia Ranaboldo | 18 March 2025A new kind of entrepreneurs, capable to bet on innovation as a social and cultural shared practice to drive change, is needed for food and nutrition security. Some reflections from Latin America.
read moreA youth perspective
Ralien Bekkers | 28 February 2025Increasing awareness and knowledge about water use is essential and should be a key part of the post-2015 agenda.
read moreDealing with sexual and reproductive health
Hilde Kroes | 19 February 2025The post-2015 agenda needs to be adapted to address the inequalities, social exclusion and root causes of poverty that people are facing. If the principles of social equity, equality and human rights are not included, we will again fail to ac...
read moreThe role of inequality in rebellion and revolt
Syed Mansoob Murshed | 05 February 2025For conflict abating strategies two policies are important. The first is addressing enduring inequalities in asset ownership, education and health. The second policy issue is promoting growth with redistribution, truly pro-poor growth.
read moreEmbracing inclusive growth
Evert-jan Quak | 18 December 2024Now economists more and more accept the idea that inequality is rising in most parts of the world and harms sustainable economic growth, the obvious next step is to change the policies that cause it. Is redistribution enough or do we have to go fu...
read moreBridging the gap between aid and development
Stephen Yeboah | 25 October 2024Establishing the roles of young people in developing economies
read morePrioritising national development plans
Akemi Yonemura | 23 October 2024Put national development plans at the center with clear exit strategies for external funding
read moreThe gap between public policy and public opinion
Jojanneke Spoor | 05 June 2025Phyllis Bennis is the director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in Washington, and a Fellow at the Transnational Institute (TNI) in Amsterdam. At the 2011 TNI Fellows Meeting (3-4 June) she talked about...
read moreEquity takes us further
Elaine Unterhalter | 19 September 2024Possibly one of the greatest steps towards the advancement of women’s rights over the last decade has been the expansion of primary education. But on its own, this is not adequate to ensure gender equality or empower women. The position of gender...
read moreAre ecological economists technocrats? (ISEE 2010)
Peter Söderbaum | 21 August 2025Most ecological economists probably agree that we are facing serious environmental and development problems in society and the economy. We also agree that action is needed. The focus of attention is on ecosystem services and degradation of natural...
read moreEgmond Conference ends on high note
Bas de Leeuw | 10 June 2025On Friday afternoon, June 11, participants of the Eco Efficiency Conference went home with a feeling of being deeply inspired and broader informed in their thinking about the complex field of eco-efficiency. They thanked Gjalt Huppes and his team,...
read moreEnlightenment - A new comment in the CDC debate
Harry C. Boyte | December 16, 2024The responses thus far to the special report on civic driven change (The Broker 10) have helped to launch a public and international conversation with far-ranging implications for the work of democracy building and development. I look forward to h...
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