Sharpening the focus of a blurred landscape
Evert-jan Quak | October 28, 2024Welcome to The Broker Dossier on Social Entrepreneurship. Social entrepreneurship is increasingly popular as a way of doing business while achieving a social and economic impact. However, many questions still remain about what social entrepreneurs...
▶Balancing social and entrepreneurial values
Sothy Khieng, Evert-jan Quak | October 24, 2024In their search to become more financially self-reliant development NGOs are experimenting with social entrepreneurship. Many are doing this to strengthen their financial situation, but social entrepreneurship can do much more and opens up new way...
▶Connecting knowledge for food security
Evert-jan Quak | 11 September 2024Exciting news from The Broker! The Broker has been selected by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs to run the office of the Food and Business Knowledge Forum with two consortium partners.
▶It takes two to tango, for economists too
Evert-jan Quak | 09 July 2025The three-day conference Economics for a Better World has come to an end. In the future, we should invite more non-economists, like environmentalists and behavioural and social scientists.
▶The task of embedding wellbeing in policy-making
Evert-jan Quak | 05 July 2025The debate on wellbeing should not only inform but also be useful for policy-makers. Read the third article in this series from the OECD conference.
▶From growth to progress
Evert-jan Quak | 04 July 2025Day one of the conference Economics for a Better World ended with a number of interesting presentations on how to achieve real progress. This is a task not only for governments but also for the private sector.
▶A look on the bright side of life
Evert-jan Quak | 04 July 2025This is the first blog post in a series from the OECD conference Economics for a Better World. Happiness versus wellbeing, are we talking about the same thing?
▶Maximizing social impact through the power of the public purse
Evert-jan Quak | 27 June 2025Public procurement can be used to spur economic transition. But there can be a bottleneck when sustainability and inclusiveness do not converge.
▶Global action beyond aid
Saskia Hollander, Evert-jan Quak | June 19, 2025The Broker, together with the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM), and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, organized the Dutch launch of the 2013 European Report on Development (ERD), Post-2015: Global Action for an Inclus...
▶An inclusive future demands political courage
Evert-jan Quak | 19 June 2025To achieve inclusive development the European Union (EU) needs to reframe its economic policy and reconsider politically sensitive issues.
▶Evert-jan Quak
Evert-Jan is a freelance knowledge broker for The Broker on the themes ‘Inclusive Economy’ and ‘Food Security’. Over his career, he has specialized in international economics, corporate social responsibility and trade issues. Evert-Jan is the author of the book Het onzichtbare label (‘The invisible label’), in which he tackles the question of why current corporate social responsibility policies do not seem to work. Evert-Jan has a degree in international economics and economic geography from the University of Utrecht. He has a mixed professional background, both as a journalist and a policy advisor in international development. He is based in the United Kingdom.E-mail: [email protected]



