In his 1972 Janeway Lectures at Princeton, James Tobin, the 1981 Nobel Prize winner for economics, submitted a proposal for a levy on international currency transactions. The idea was not greeted with enthusiasm, as the 1970s were a period of optimism and confidence in floating exchange rages....

The 2007 report on Human Development in South Asia is the tenth report in the series of annual reports prepared by Mahbub ul Haq Human Development Centre. On this tenth anniversary, this report evaluates the actions that have followed the ten South Asia Human Development Reports produced and...

This book is based on several talks and papers presented by the author in recent years. It is organized in two parts, the first dealing with an emerging development paradigm, and the second with the imperative for a new international dialogue in topics central to human development such as a...

Jan Pronk is president of the Society for International Development International Governing Council. He is a professor of Theory and Practice of International Development at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague. Between 1973 and 2002, he served three terms as Minister for...

Jan Pronk highlights the growing conflict potential as economic and technological forces behind globalization lead to more and more greed, an intemperate pursue of material welfare and growth, destruction in the name of renewal and progress, and a tremendous burden on the scarce physical...

Jan Pronk reflects on his high-level political engagement on climate change underlying the principles that should inform policy today, but have not been taken up adequately in the recent UN Conference on Climate Change in Bali. He takes us through the policy responses required to counter the...