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Achieving Sustainable Development for All

The aim of this blog is to provide a space for some critical and innovative thought and discussions on how to achieve sustainable development mainly in developing countries but also in industrialized countries. This blog is not only for specialists but mainly for interested people, notably decision-makers. My point of view is based on the International Political Economy approach because is more useful to learn from experiences and history than from abstract (and far-from-reality) models.

Achieving Sustainable Development for All

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May 5, 2008

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I would like to thank all the visitors of this blog.

Some of my posts had more success than others. Four post were the most visited:

  1. Trade and Development link in developing countries beyond the free trade vs protectionism debate
  2. Is Official Development Assistance Effective to Boost Growth? Palliative vs. Development Economics
  3. What role plays agriculture in economic development?
  4. South-South Regional Integration: 11 Potential Positive Consequences for Sustainable Development

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Welcome to my blog

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Thanks to visit my blog. I hope that you will find some interesting feed for though. In the world of sustainable development experts, there is often a lack of creative thinking.

The aim of this blog is to offer to interested citizen, civil society and policy makers, particularly from developing countries an access to critic and innovative thinking on a number of political as well as economic issues linked to the goal of achieving sustainable development. I will not follow the fashionable agenda of many international organizations and Northern NGO. Instead, I will try to offer some thought based on historical experience. In order to change the current situation at a national, regional and global level we need to understand how the world really works. This is possible only by understanding critically the past experiences and by thinking out the box. Models, notably econometric, are sound scientific but they poorly match with the reality.

The aim of this blog is to launch interesting discussions with you. For this reason, do not hesitate to post comments and to ask me for publishing your posts. This is an interactive blog. You can also send me an email (see Contact Me) for example to propose an issue for my next post.

About Me

The Sustainable Development Blogger
I work in the sustainable development cooperation field and I choose to look for a new job. I have an academic background in International Political Economy. I spend years on thinking on how to achieve sustainable development and on why current and past experiences oftent did not work very well.
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“The laboratory of history shows that symmetric free trade, between nations at approximately the same level of development, benefits both parties. Asymmetric free trade will lead to the poor nation specializing in being poor, while the rich nation will specialize in being rich. To benefit from free trade, the poor nation must first rid itself of its international specialization in being poor. For 500 years this has not happened anywhere without heavy market intervention”

Erik S. Reinert (Reinert, 2007, pp. 118-9)

“The idea of a society which produces in its structure the antagonisms that lead to its modification appears as an appropriate model for the analysis of change in general”

Ralf Dahrendorf

Interesting to Read

  • Payne Anthony (2005), The Global Politics of Unequal Development, New York, Palgrave Macmillan
  • Reinert Erik S. (2007), How Rich Countries Got Rich... and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor, New York, Carrol And Graf.
  • Rodrik Dani (2007), One economics Many Recipes. Globalization, Institutions and Economic Growth, Princeton, Princeton University Press

Interesting Blogs

  • Center for Global Development
  • Dani Rodrik
  • Fritjofs Brille
  • Ideas 4 Development
  • International policy Analysis by Schmiegelow Partners
  • Overseas Development Institute
  • Oxonomics
  • South Centre Blog
  • Trade Diversion

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  • ICTSD
  • South Centre
  • UNCTAD

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