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Concerns about the European middle class – part 2<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe hard knocks being suffered by the European middle class are leading to shifts in the political landscape of Europe. The causes date back to long before the financial crisis of 2008. It is therefore an illusion to hope that this dip is temporar…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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New The Broker dossier about the European middle class<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe Broker has launched a new dossier: The European Middle Class under the programme Inclusive Economy Europe.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Repairing the middle<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tEurope\u2019s economic progress and political stability after the Second World War would not have been possible without the rise of the European middle class. This dossier shows that further progress and stability is seriously under threat, partly due…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Making globalization work for the European middle class<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tImport competition, offshoring and automation are threatening the middle classes in Europe. New jobs have been created mainly for the lower and the upper segments of the labour market. But not for the middle. And because most of those jobs are in…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Occupational changes that transform the middle class<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tOccupational change in itself cannot explain the decline of the European middle class. But it could be a threat to its sociopolitical foundations\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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A Divided Middle<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe middle class is not a homogeneous group. The segments within it respond differently to economic globalization, with the lower middle class heading towards the poorest. Although social protection schemes can go a long way to compensate for thei…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Resources on the middle class<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe international discussion on the middle class is taking place on many levels. The table here contains a number of institutional reports, research papers and other sources that The Broker\u2019s editors have found useful in preparing the Middle Class…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Creating jobs at the heart of economic policy<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tYou can read it in the newspapers every day: national economies are not creating enough jobs and fewer quality jobs in the productive sectors. Globalization, automation and financialization of the economy have been identified as the drivers of cur…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Low wages and job insecurity as a destructive global standard<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tIt is a political choice to allow the spread of insecure employment conditions, for example by deregulating the relationship between employers and employees. It is also a political choice to reverse this trend, but one that requires a broader unde…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Trade openness still matters<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tWhile the long-term benefits of freer trade for the domestic labour market seem indisputable, it is politically contestable over the short- and medium-run.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Pre-distribution and monetary policy: stabilizing employment and growth<\/a><\/h3>\n

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The inequality of ownership<\/a><\/h3>\n

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From disposable labour to a different globalization<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe central theme of The Broker Day 2014 on 14 April was employment and inequality, and the structural macroeconomic problems underlying them. The main speaker was Minister of Social Affairs and Employment and deputy prime minister Lodewijk Assche…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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The challenge of employment generation under globalization<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe activities of labouring classes show that establishing a system that puts their interests before corporate profits is possible.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Clarifying the global employment trends<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tWelcome to The Broker\u2019s dossier on employment. Global employment trends can be confusing. For example, they show an increase in the numbers of unemployed people while at the same time an increase in the amount of jobs. Population growth alone cann…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Profits without labour benefits<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tIn 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…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Creating a global labour market<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tWho 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…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Strategic change of direction required towards social and sustainable globalization<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Global governance of cities<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tGenerally we consider emerging powers to be countries, but other powers are emerging: the world\u2019s megacities.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tPolicies to improve inclusiveness should rethink the model of financial globalization in the same way as industrialization was embedded in national welfare states.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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A new framework for action<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tDoing something about the numerous inequalities we face in this world, encompassing so many domains is on everybody\u2019s lips these days. But what is the result? What place will the true addressing of inequalities bring us in the post 2015 era? Actua…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tWe tend to forget it, but the development cooperation agenda started, more than fifty years ago, with the aim of reducing the income gap between what is now called rich and poor countries. In the 1970s, when too many people started to believe in t…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe 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…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tIn recent decades, inequality has been increasing worldwide. Although the middle classes are growing, most of the world\u2019s population continues to live close to the poverty lines. \u2018Emerging giants\u2019 India and China are witnessing soaring inequality…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe future of international aid does not look bright. Development aid has always been surrounded by questions and controversy, but in recent years the tone of the debate has hardened. Sweeping changes are needed if efforts to help the world\u2019s poor…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tGlobalization has blurred the distinction between internal and external affairs. This is equally true for both developing countries and richer countries. Moreover, it could result in a profound reshuffling of administrative power relations within…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tHet AIV-advies over de \u2018post-2015\u2019 agenda voor mondiale ontwikkeling zet een andere toon dan eerdere, invloedrijke rapporten van de WRR. Daarmee cre\u00ebert het een basis voor een interessant debat tussen een aantal verschillende paradigma\u2019s over ontw…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe Broker will publish interesting publications and current affairs in de field of global development.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe blog \u2018Current Global Affairs\u2019 provides a window for reflection on news events, topical issues and developments. The blog focuses on the wider implications of current affairs, beyond the immediate impact of events as-they-unfold. Would you like…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe foreign policy chapter in the Rutte-Verhagen coalition agreement (Dutch\/English) stresses the importance of preserving Dutch interests internationally, while emphasizing the significance of international solidarity in underpinning development…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe current economic crisis is yet another stark reminder of the new policy challenges facing the world. While attention has shifted to the economic crisis, other crises, such as global warming and new communicable diseases, have been temporarily…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThis double summer issue of The Broker focuses a great deal on global issues, as usual. To balance this out a bit, though, this editorial will look at the nation state. Its decline has long been predicted, but recently proponents of the nation sta…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tFive years after its acceptance by the 2005 World Summit, it is time to consider the contribution that the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has made and could make to the prevention of mass atrocities.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tGlobalisation and the Future of Terrorism: Patterns and Predictions, by Brynjar Lia. Contemporary Security Studies Series, Routledge, 2006, 280 pp.A review by Ahmed H. al-Rahim. \n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe alternative climate summit for mayors in Copenhagen in December 2009 aims to put cities at the top of the climate change agenda. The summit\u2019s message to heads of state, the media and citizens is that cities and local governments have a crucial…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tHumans have transformed the planet beyond recognition, and the institutions and governance mechanisms regulating our relationship with the natural environment cannot cope. New, integrated systems of governance, from local to global levels, are nee…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThis blog discusses the new turn in Germany after the latest elections in September 2009.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tEditor in Chief Frans Bieckmann will update an editor’s blog reflecting on the thought processes behind production of The Broker and highlighting interesting, useful and unusual information that he comes across day to day\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThomas P.M. Barnett has given well over a thousand presentations worldwide. Barrett is a well known defence expert whose career trajectory has run from Harvard University to the US Naval War College, and from being just another Soviet Union specia…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Earthland <\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tIn June, 450 development researchers met in Geneva at the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) conference entitled \u2018Global governance for sustainable development: the need for policy coherence and new partner…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tIt was the god Zeus who seduced the beautiful girl Europa. He turned into a virile white bull and took her on his back to Crete. In a similar way, some people are trying to seduce Europe into playing a more positive and proactive role in addressin…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\u2018Global\u2019 and \u2018globalization\u2019 carry many meanings. Politicians are increasingly using the terms in public discourse, but often in the neoliberal sense. Understanding how \u2018global\u2019 and \u2018globalization\u2019 are used helps reveal possibilities for new natio…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tOne of the hot books in international development circles at the moment is Paul Collier\u2019s The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It, by Paul Collier, formerly of the World Bank and currently director o…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tOn 20 and 21 April 2007, the Social Sciences and Law faculties of the Free University of Amsterdam hosted an international conference \u2018Shaking up citizenship\u2019. This promised to be an interdisciplinary exploration of how globalization affects citiz…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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