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\n\t\t\tWith the start of a new year, the time has come to reflect on what has passed and look towards what is to come in 2017. A shortlist of 5 unmissable articles published by The Broker in 2016 provides a great start.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Doing business in Africa: do the poor profit?<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tDuring the EADI conference, The Broker had an exclusive interview with Branko Milanovic, Professor at the City University New York and economist for the World Bank specialized in inequality.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Social protection and responsible development<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tSocial protection is an important element of responsible development, but establishing adequate programmes is complex, as discussions at the EADI conference in Bonn, Germany, once more highlighted.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Boosting inclusive employment through impact sourcing<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tImpact sourcing is a promising means to enhance employment and training opportunities for the poor and underprivileged.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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A view on the Open Working Group<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tInequality indicators play an important role in the process of choosing the post-2015 goals. Related to this issue is the question of what level of inequality is acceptable \u2013 a certain amount of inequality can stimulate economic growth, but too mu…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Tackling inequality to achieve inclusive growth<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tInequality rates continue to soar all over the world despite falling poverty rates and global GDP growth. The world\u2019s richest 1% own 40% of global wealth, while the bottom half own only 1%. To improve our understanding of inequality and to identif…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThere is more to the alleged contradiction between the de-prioritization of action on climate change and the consensus that it is a threat to society.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Balancing social and entrepreneurial values<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Social protection as a global challenge<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Participation of the poorest in post-2015<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tWithout the involvement of the poor and marginalized in the successor framework to the MDGs, it is unlikely that interventions will respond to their problems.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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What have we learned?<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tAlthough the MDGs are arguably the most politically important pact ever made for international development, they harbor several lessons for their successor framework.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Wanted: captains, pilots and mates to navigate to post-2015<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tGlobal goals need global policies. Governments have more to win than lose if they join forces and agree upon a single post-2015 agenda.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Progressive policies and the Palma<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe failure of effective direct taxation is the central explanation for much higher final income inequality. Therefore Cobham and Sumner argue in favour of more fairness in tax systems through metrics.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tEconomic policy should focus on poverty reduction rather than on growth and should start in rural areas. First of two blog posts by David Woodward.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Towards an inclusive economy<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\u2018Spurring economic transition\u2019 is the follow-up to The Broker\u2019s debate on inequality. What are the most important conclusions of the inequality debate that it needs to address?\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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How to fund pro-poor economic strategies<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tPro-poor strategies that are inclusive should be funded primarily by domestic sources, because foreign savings and investment tend to be volatile and difficult to target. However, this can be a problem for the very poor countries.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Spurring economic transition<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tHow can we create a more inclusive economy and what obstacles lie in the way? This debate seeks answers.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Inequality is not only about poverty<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe global development framework for the coming years cannot ignore global inequality if it should constitute a relevant and legitimate set of development goals in a globalised world.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Aiming high<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe international post-2015 development agenda is in need of a comprehensive water development framework based on widely shared ethical principles.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t28 February 2025
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t26 February 2025
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t09 February 2025
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Inequality: an issue for the 2015 agenda, but also for the aid agenda?<\/a><\/h3>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRen\u00e9 Grotenhuis<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t|
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t23 January 2025
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t16 January 2025
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When do inequalities cause conflict?<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tHow are inequality and conflict connected? This question has occupied the minds of thinkers and practitioners for many years. The common-sense argument sounds convincing: where there are large inequalities between rich and poor, the latter become…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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People power for aid effectiveness<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t16 October 2025
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Violent conflict is having a devastating effect on Development Goals<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe official presentation in the Netherlands of the Rural Poverty Report 2011 of the IFAD last week at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague coincided with the findings of the G20 agricultural ministers meeting to establ…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t16 March 2025
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\n\t\t\tSusan George, (2010), \u201cWhose Crisis, Whose Future? Towards a Greener, Fairer, Richer World\u201d, Polity Press, Cambridge. The book is published as well in French and Spanish, see details below. Here is a book that attempts to explain how high finances…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFebruary 10, 2025
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\n\t\t\tIt is tempting, as the 2015 target date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) creeps relentlessly closer, to take stock of our chances of actually meeting them. Most experts paint a mixed picture. The consensus is that while there has been a…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tI welcome Andy Sumner\u2019s lucid article on the fact that most of the world’s poor now live in middle-income countries and what that means for development.I agree with Sumner that this brings microeconomic issues, inequality in particular, to the for…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tAndy Sumner\u2019s research on the new bottom billion has been on the lips of almost every development professional I know for the last few months. The revelation that 75% of poor people might actually live in middle-income, rather than low-income coun…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe new bottom billion has reshaped the demographics of poverty. This calls for a renewed development narrative, one that focuses on inequality and shared responsibility.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tUN summits follow a more or less predetermined route. Heads of state and government and heads of major international organizations all come and make their declarations. In most of them, there is nothing really new or interesting. Now and then, how…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t18 September 2025
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\n\t\t\tThe big issue for the MDG summit, the ‘big push’ to 2015 and even the post-2015 debates (there’s a newly agreed UN summit due in Sept 2013) should really be a focus on equity and on the poorest. Why? Because nearly three-quarters of the world’s po…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tReporting from the World Science Forum, Hanns Neubert senses a sea change in attitudes towards the role of science in reducing poverty. Governments are spending more; young people are choosing science careers. Yet poor people will not benefit with…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tGlobal Civil Society 2009: Poverty and Activism, edited by Ashwani Kumar, Jan Aart Scholte, Mary Kaldor, Marlies Glasius, Hakan Seckinelgin and Helmut Anheier, Sage, 376 pp.A review by Donatella della Porta.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t01 July 2025
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\n\t\t\tIn 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…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tFrans Bieckmann is the Editor in Chief of The BrokerLooking back on, and having briefly chewed over a long day of interesting talks and debates at the High Level Policy Forum in Brussels, I will share with you some of the threads and trends t…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Marieke Hounjet: Live from Brussels II: Is This a Bretton Woods Moment?<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tMarieke Hounjet is reporting live from the Brussels Forum for The BrokerThe second plenary of the High Level Policy Forum today in Brussels was titled: \u2018What are the key meta-processes shaping development over the next 10-15 years and what do they…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tSumner in his challenging paper \u201cBeyond 2015\u201d, encourages us to rethink the development policy and reconsider the need, nature and dimensions of MDG\u2019s from the real expectations of poor people instead of donors\u2019 interest. The author points out the…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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A world without poverties \u2013 are MDGs helping or hindering?<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a visionary statement. They have focused the attention and intention of the world towards the challenge of our time. But they are a product of our past and as such are simultaneously unhelpful as they di…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tAs Andy Sumner has stated in his article of 26th May, 2009 \u201cRethinking Development Policy 2015\u201d, the MDGs are viewed as a set of indicators for guiding poverty reduction and for holding international agencies and governments accountable to citizen…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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