Special Reports

Our world is changing quickly and profoundly. Rich and poor – regardless of where they live – are faced with increasingly ‘thick’ problems and social change is more politicized and contested than ever before. And yet, most international developmen…

Dit Special Report is samengesteld door Evert-jan Quak, Ellen Lammers en Frans Bieckmann. Het is een weerslag van het debat over het kennisbeleid van het Nederlandse ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken dat de afgelopen maanden werd gevoerd op de web…

Development organizations have yet to come to terms with the inherent complexity of institutional change. Institutional change takes time, and the kind of institution best suited to a given situation depends on the context. In other words, a succe…

Can you think of a group of almost half of the countries in the world, delivering crucial commodities, without a real say in global governance? Well, it exists. It’s called the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP). And the group no…

The two articles in this special report explore the shift that is needed from the national to the global, not just in outlook but especially in policy agendas, institutional set-up, cooperation between sector ministries, governance and funding. Ho…

For this special report, The Broker asked Carlos Oya and Pedro A. Sanchez to present their views on the global food crisis. Oya explores the problems of unequal food distribution and market liberalization. He argues that deregulated markets should…

This interest coincides with a search for innovative sources of financing to meet development goals and fund global public goods. So why not tax global public bads to fund public goods? Taxing public bads would yield a double dividend. In the firs…

Less Pretension, More Ambition, a report written by the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), has succeeded in shaking up the aid debate. It has reiterated the urgency of thoroughly rethinking development policies.

Some countries have shifted resources to stimulate ‘green economy’ opportunities, looking to capitalize on societal concerns about the spillovers of profligate consumption during the recent speculative bubble. Under the banner of a ‘Global Green N…

The alternative climate summit for mayors in Copenhagen in December 2009 aims to put cities at the top of the climate change agenda. The summit’s message to heads of state, the media and citizens is that cities and local governments have a crucial…