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Breaking out of the development community
Evert-jan Quak | 27 June 2025The EADI conference has closed its doors. What the conference has shown us is that the debate on inequality and the rise of the middle class in developing countries opens many windows of opportunity to reframe development and development policy as...
read moreDevelopment as building middle-class societies
Evert-jan Quak | 27 June 2025The Broker had the pleasure of interviewing Nancy Birdsall, president of the Centre for Global Development, at the EADI conference. She has often asked herself who you call middle class? And what does the rise of the middle class mean for de...
read moreSecretariat for the Knowledge Platform on Development Policies
07 May 2025The African Studies Centre (ASC), the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS/EUR) and globalization think tank The Broker are excited to announce that they will be hosting the Secretariat fo...
read moreDividend or disaster: youth unemployment in Africa
Kate Meagher | 26 March 2025It is time for development economists to look beyond the stylized facts to the dire realities of Africa’s frustrated youth and burgeoning informal economies.
read moreCreating more decent work for women
Sher Verick | 17 March 2025Employment is a critical path to women’s economic empowerment, but it is by no means a simple relationship.
read moreFocus on employment in economic strategies
Evert-jan Quak | March 12, 2025To solve the structural problems related to unemployment, a radical policy shift is needed. Innovation policies must focus on job-intensive sectors. Governments must curb free capital flows with more regulation and stimulate financial institutions...
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 moreProfits without labour benefits
Rolph van der Hoeven | February 26, 2025In many countries the share of labour in national income has declined over the last three decades. As a result, the low and middle-income groups of people who depend the most on wages for their income are crumbling. Meanwhile, the rich elites who...
read moreTackling inequality to achieve inclusive growth
Sara Murawski | December 06, 2024Inequality rates continue to soar all over the world despite falling poverty rates and global GDP growth. The world’s richest 1% own 40% of global wealth, while the bottom half own only 1%. To improve our understanding of inequality and to identif...
read moreProtect - or promote?
Annemarie van de Vijsel | October 22, 2024Social protection schemes look very different across the world. They traditionally protect people from income fall after shocks. But some programmes have higher aims: increasing the economic opportunities and promoting the potential of those who a...
read moreWanted: captains, pilots and mates to navigate to post-2015
Hildegard Lingnau | 14 August 2025Global goals need global policies. Governments have more to win than lose if they join forces and agree upon a single post-2015 agenda.
read morePecuniary aspects of self-interest in bilateral aid
Milad Zarin-Nejadan | 15 July 2025Donors are estimated to receive a return from development aid of 50–80%. To understand the financial effects of aid on donor countries, we need a new economic model.
read moreSelf-interest vs altruism in East Asia’s development aid
Anders Riel Müller | 03 July 2025Criticism of East Asia’s alleged self-interest-led development aid can also be applied to Western donors.
read moreMandela’s farewell
Jean-Paul Marthoz | 06 December 2024Mandela was an ethical realist, who rejected confrontation both at home and internationally.
read moreBe careful, BRICS Development Bank
Yu Chen | 02 July 2025Will the BRICS Development Bank’s constructive capacities overcome its destructive ones? The world is watching.
read moreResults Based Management: does it pay off?
Reinier van Hoffen | 29 May 2025As a result of increasing complexity and absence of strong leadership it has become difficult for policy makers to ensure accountability in the aid chain. This has resulted in the popularization of Results Based Management (RBM). Instigated by the...
read moreThe Fundamental Things Apply
David Sogge | 10 May 2025Norway’s recent international cooperation white paper, Sharing for Prosperity, seems stubbornly non-conformist. For it recommits Norway to some fundamental, if today unfashionable, purposes: for low-income lands, pursuit of growth-with-r...
read moreBuilding resilient and inclusive food markets
Evert-jan Quak | April 17, 2025To achieve maximum impact on food and nutrition security, knowledge and research policy should focus on local agriculture and food sectors. This means including small-scale farmers in regional food chains as well as making investments in the food...
read moreDevelopment strategies start with small-scale farming
Evert-jan Quak | 01 April 2025The final report of the Tracking Development project concludes that successful development strategies focus on small-scale farmers and give them and small entrepreneurs the freedom and protection to build on a future rather than on industrialisation.
read moreDevelopment strategies start with small-scale farming
Evert-jan Quak | 01 April 2025The final report of the Tracking Development project concludes that successful development strategies focus on small-scale farmers and give them and small entrepreneurs the freedom and protection to build on a future rather than on industrialisation.
read moreIndia: aid donor or development partner?
Peter Konijn | 04 March 2025In January 2012 the Indian government formally established the Development Partnership Administration (DPA) within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with a mandate to coordinate India’s overseas development assistance.
read moreInvesting in an inclusive and resilient society
Paul Engel | 07 February 2025Investing in the domestic agricultural and food sector automatically means investing in domestic entrepreneurship, in the development of local SMEs and in strengthening national economic and innovative capacities.
read moreAttention to inequality should be a basic element of any post-2015 agenda
Rolph van der Hoeven | 17 December 2024The MDGs, by emphasizing targets at a global level, have ignored the inequalities that average figures conceal (van der Hoeven, 2010, Vandemoortele, 2011, Melaned, 2012). Attention to inequality should be a basic element of any post-2015 agenda an...
read moreInclusieve visie op ontwikkeling
Nicky Pouw | 23 November 2024Om kennis voor ontwikkeling op strategische en effectieve wijze in te zetten is een overkoepelende visie op ontwikkeling nodig. Te lange tijd zijn de ogen gesloten voor de negatieve externaliteiten van het internationaal handels- en...
read moreBuilding quality of life together
Steffie Verstappen | October 20, 2024In the framework of the Bellagio Initiative, The Broker hosted a lively online debate on human wellbeing and inclusive economics in the 21st century. Our contributors agree that economic growth as measured by gross domestic product (GDP) generally...
read moreAnother development gimmick in the making
Claudio Schuftan | 25 September 2024According to Claudio Shuftan, the changes needed in the current economic climate are so drastic that mega philanthropies and their sponsors will never accept them.
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