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This January, two years away from the expiry of the 2000 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the post 2015 agenda has already created a buzz in Monrovia and Johannesburg. As Liberia’s President Ellen...
View Article‘The Times They Are A-Changin’
As the date of 2015 approaches, the international community is analysing the results of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that were omnipresent in the development debate since 2000. But many are...
View ArticleA global social protection fund?
Olivier de Schutter, the UN’s special rapporteur on the right to food, is consistently interesting and provocative. This call to action is currently circulating on the interwebs (although the paper...
View ArticleIn a changing world, five key challenges
The DAC has been at the forefront of development for decades, setting important standards and providing essential co-ordination of development assistance. We can be certain that these efforts...
View ArticleCash Transfers as an Instrument in Fighting Poverty
The international debate on ways and means to fight poverty has gathered new momentum in recent years and there seems to be an intensifying search for new and more efficient poverty alleviation...
View ArticleWill the Post-2015 report make a difference?
Reading the report of the High Level Panel induces a sense of giddy optimism. It is a manifesto for a (much) better world, taking the best of the Millennium Development Goals, and adding what we have...
View ArticleAgainst the Gospel of ‘Africa Rising’
Almost ten years ago, Binyavanga Wainana mocked the relentless bashing of Africa for what it is: ignorance. Nowadays, however, a new gospel could use similar deriding: ‘tell them six of the ten fastest...
View ArticleThe Global Agenda 2014
Never before has the world faced so many challenges. As the world becomes more and more globalized, most of these challenges require international solutions and agreements, but which have to meet...
View ArticleThe development aid paradox
Consider a well-known paradox of development aid: Where aid is needed the most, it is also most difficult to get good results. The potential benefits of aid are all but lost on account of corruption,...
View ArticleZimbabwe—leaving older persons behind?
The wellbeing of older persons in Zimbabwe is a growing concern, especially those suffering from the negative impact on their pensions and savings following the demise of the Zimbabwe dollar. Despite...
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