{"id":948,"date":"2025-10-02T04:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/looking-for-the-game-changer\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T04:00:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:00:32","slug":"looking-for-the-game-changer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/bellagio-initiative\/looking-for-the-game-changer\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking For The Game Changer"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left blog_post content view\" id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"edit image\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/blogs\/bellagio-initiative\/looking-for-the-game-changer\/175993-3-eng-gb\/looking-for-the-game-changer_full_view.jpg\" alt=\"Do it yourself game changer, by Simon Young\">\n\t<\/div>\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<div class=\"share\">\n\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n    var addthis_config = {\n        ui_language = 'en'\n    }\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis sharing\">\n\t<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style\" addthis:title=\"Looking for the game changer\">\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_twitter\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_facebook\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_pinterest_share\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_preferred_4\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_compact\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_bubble_style\"><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<p>\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">var addthis_config = data_track_addressbar;<\/script><br \/>\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/300\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n\t<!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"addthis article_options\">\n\t\t<!-- \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/mandrill\/subscription\/add\/75009\/16874\">Subscribe<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t -->\n    \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLooking for the game changer<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pubDate\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/experts-and-authors\/bieckmann-frans\/\">Frans Bieckmann<\/a>\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t09 November 2025\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n\t<!-- body --><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><b><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">My worries, phrased in&nbsp;yesterday\u2019s post, have been taken away today. I was afraid that the concept of wellbeing might create more confusion, instead of serving as a unifier that creates a broad and common target to work towards.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">My worries, phrased in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/bellagio-initiative\/layers-of-complexity\/\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday\u2019s post<\/a>, have been taken away today. I was afraid that the concept of wellbeing might create more confusion, instead of serving as a unifier that creates a broad and common target to work towards. Today, the organizers asked us to forget about human wellbeing for the moment, and to think about how we can make development more effective. Okay. But that created a new problem for me, because, what\u2019s new about that? To me, the interesting perspective that an integrated concept like human wellbeing can provide, is to pave the way for strategies that aim for change at a structural, systemic level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">The first presentation yesterday morning was very promising in this respect. Marco Mira d\u2019Ercole, head of the division for Household Statistics and Progress Measurement of the OECD &#8211; and closely involved with the preparation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/documents\/rapport_anglais.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">2009 report Stiglitz, Sen and Fitoussi<\/a>, spoke about the report that the OECD published this month: <i>How\u2019s life? Measuring well-being.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">However, the debates at the Bellagio meetings did not systematically pick this up. There was no systematic thinking through of what should change in national economic policies or the global economic system to achieve a more comprehensive improvement of people\u2019s wellbeing \u2013 or on how such change can be accomplished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Instead, the day was full of debates about innovation, logical frameworks, competition between development NGOs, open source philanthropy, the use of mobile phones, open data, accountability, transparency, and so on. All very useful and necessary subjects for the development sector, but none of them is the groundbreaking \u2018game changer\u2019 that is so urgently needed in this time of multiple global crises that affect the lives of millions of vulnerable people all over the world. I personally believe that the development sector should change towards a much more political role in trying to influence the structural causes of inequality in the world. The development sector should become a real political factor in trying to push for a more just globalisation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Just at the moment that I thought we had thrown out the baby with the bathwater, the notion of human wellbeing popped up again, immediately followed by several proposals for an agenda for change that seemed well to the point: development NGOs and philanthropic foundations were called upon to integrate their \u2018silos\u2019 \u2013 the thematic departments in their organisations \u2013 into a holistic approach. Others suggested that the voices or the demands of the people concerned must be incorporated much more at the stage of the conception of development interventions. And others yet made reference to the fast changing global relations: we must open our eyes to other development models than the one currently followed by multilateral institutions and western donors. Models that are still based on what is not supposed to be called the Washington Consensus anymore, but which do resemble the usual recipes prescribed by orthodox economists. From China to Brazil, from Singapore to Bolivia, new ideas about how to develop a country are emerging &#8211; and proving useful. Now that the neoliberal model is increasingly proving to be obsolete, we need to look for alternatives. So, after all, this Summit day ended on a promising note.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n<p class=\"credit\">Photo credit main picture: Do it yourself game changer, by Simon Young<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<!-- body -->\n\t<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"commentform content column wide left\">\n<div class=\"disqus_content\">\n\t\t\t<a name=\"comments\" id=\"comments\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"disqus_thread\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\t\t\t\t\/* * * CONFIGURATION VARIABLES: EDIT BEFORE PASTING INTO YOUR WEBPAGE * * *\/\n\t\t\t\tvar disqus_shortname = 'broker'; \/\/ required: replace example with your forum shortname\n\t\t\t\tvar disqus_identifier = '8102';\n\t\t\t\t\/* * * DON'T EDIT BELOW THIS LINE * * *\/\n\t\t\t\tfunction trackComment(comment)\n\t\t\t\t{\n\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(comment);\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tfunction disqus_config() {\n\t\t\t\t\tthis.callbacks.onNewComment = [function() { \n\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(comment);\n\t\t\t\t\t}];\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t(function() {\n\t\t\t\t\tvar dsq = document.createElement('script'); dsq.type = 'text\/javascript'; dsq.async = true;\n\t\t\t\t\tdsq.src = '\/\/' + disqus_shortname + 'https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/blogs\/bellagio-initiative\/.disqus.com\/embed.js';\n\t\t\t\t\t(document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(dsq);\n\t\t\t\t})();\n\t\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n\t\t\t<!--\n\t\t\t<noscript>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\/?ref_noscript\">comments powered by Disqus.<\/a><\/noscript>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\" class=\"dsq-brlink\">comments powered by <span class=\"logo-disqus\">Disqus<\/span><\/a>\n\t\t\t-->\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false,"raw":""},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for the game changer Frans Bieckmann | 09 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template_2.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-948","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Looking for the game changer \/ Bellagio Initiative \/ Blogs - The Broker<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"My worries, phrased in&amp;nbsp;yesterday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s post, have been taken away today. 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