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By Making It on 11 January, 2012
Governments, industry and businesses need to create more family friendly workplaces and workplace policies
Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged anti-discrimination laws and changes in policies of companies and businesses worldwide, better data and analysis, better salaries, childcare arrangements, complex problem, earning, éducation, flexible hours, gender issue, gender pay gap, higher education, improvements to existing legal frameworks, Industrial Development Organization, issue 8, Making It, negotiation, paid leave of absence for sickness and family care, parental leave, policy brief, power, reduce pay gap, Soroptimist International of the Americas, supporting working families, training women to ask for more pay, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, vocational training, women's empowerment, workplace, younger generation of women
By Making It on 10 January, 2012
Investing in gender-sensitive development affects productivity, efficiency and sustained economic growth, as well as strengthens women’s rights
Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged Africa, business management, cosmetics, economic potential of women, education systems, enhancing competitiveness, entrepreneurial activities, entrepreneurship, environmental sustainability, finance, gender issue, Gender Mainstreaming Steering Committee, gender-sensitive employment creation, inclusive globalization, industrial development for poverty reduction, Industrial Development Organization, institutionalize, internationalization, investment in care services, issue 8, local raw materials, Making It magazine, Mali, market-information, modernity, Morocco, off-grid energy sources, policy advice, producing shea products, product certification and marketing, productive resources, skills, strengthening business support services, sustainable energy, technical cooperation programmes, technology, uganda, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, women's empowerment
By Making It on 25 December, 2011
How women’s economic empowerment is critical for reducing poverty and achieving broader health and development objectives
Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged Anju Malhotra, donors, economic empowerment, gender, Gillian Gaynair, global economic development, health and development objectives, ICWR, Industrial Development Organization, International Centre for Research on Women, issue 8, Making It, reducing poverty, researchers, skills and training, UNIDO, United Nations, what makes a project successful
By Making It on 7 October, 2011
Raphael Kaplinsky discusses why industrialized and low- and middle-income countries need to look past the idea of resources as they know it today
Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged Albert Hirschman, climate, commodity-exporting, competition, convestional wisdom, decisionmakers, development, development policy, Dutch Disease, economies, economist, employment creation, exchange rates, exploitation, external economies, global trade, global value chains, globalization, government policy, historical experiences, Industrial Development, industrialization, industry, internationalism, issue 7, local industrial capabilities, Making It magazine, manufacturing, national system of innovation, natural resources, Open University, policy, policy brief, price-volatility, R&D, Raphael Kaplinsky, resource curse, statistics and research, sustainable surpluses, trade, UNIDO, United Nations Industrial Development Organization
By Making It on 8 August, 2011
Biofuels address three key global challenges: maintenance of energy security, economic development, and mitigation of climate change
Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged 2020, agribusiness, Alena Buyx, biodiversity, biofuels, challenge, climate change, development, efficiency, environment, ethical issues, ethics, European, European Union, food security, globalization, greenhouse gas emissions, human rights, indigenous, Industrial Development Organization, intellectural property rights, issue 6, justice, labour rights, law, Making It, Malaysia, moral values, Nuffield Council on Bioethics, palm oil plantation, policy, policymakers, prices, production, regional, Renewable Energy Directive, report, rights, solidarity, standards, stewardship, sustainability, target, target-based strategy, technology, trade, transport, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, workers
By Making It on 8 July, 2011
Kenneth Marsh points out how better packaging can help add value and preserve food and pharmaceuticals in developing countries
Posted in Policy Brief | Tagged agribusiness, agricultural production, business, company, consultant, cultural factors, developed countries, developing countries, distribution, Economic Development, FAO, farm, food, Global, globalization, grain, hunger, innovation, issue 6, Kenneth Marsh, law, legal, legality, loss, machinery, Making It, market, material, MDGs, Millennium Development Goals, multinational companies, packaging, pharmaceutical, plastic, poor storage, private sector, production rate, public sector, shipping, Sri Lanka, sustainability, sustainable production, technology, transport, transportation, UN, UN Food and Agricultural Organization, UNIDO, United Nations, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, United States, US, value, value-added packaged food
By Making It on 6 July, 2011
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter, pushes for more innovative designs for the global food system
Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged Africa, agribusiness, agriculture, agro-ecology, architect, build, climate change, co2, commodities, crisis, deforestation, design, developing countries, distaster, domestic supply, donor contributions, Egypt, export, farmers, feed, fight, food crises, food security, foreign producers, France, future, g20, global food system, government, greenhouse gas emissions, health care, human rights, humanitarian supplies, hunger, import, Industrial Development, infrastructure, innovation, insecurity, International, investment, living wage, Making It magazine, market, Mozambique, Olivier De Schutter, organizations, peak prices, politics, population growth, poverty, prices, producers, protection, reinsurance mechanism, remedy, reserves, Robert Zoellick, root causes, safety, safety nets, shock, social-protection programmes, solution, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, srfood.org, stable revenue, Sub-Saharan Africa, sustainability, symptoms, technology, trade, trend, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, value chains, World Bank
By Making It on 10 May, 2011
A report warns that developing countries relying heavily on expanding exports need to rethink their current strategies to achieve growth, and argues that they need to give greater attention to strengthening domestic demand
Posted in Policy Brief | Tagged Aid for Trade, China, diversification, domestic demand, economic, export, growth, import, Industrial Development Organization, issue 5, jobs, labour, ldc, least developed countries, liberalization, Making It magazine, market, natural resources, policy, poverty, primary commodities, south-south trade, sustainability, sustainable, technology, trade, Trade and Development Report 2010: Globalization and Development Strategies, UN, UNCTAD, UNIDO, United Nations, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, value-added
By Making It on 10 April, 2011
Inside the EU’s new strategy to boost growth and jobs in Europe is based on a strong, diversified, and competitive industrial base, while tackling global warming and increase corporate social responsibility
Posted in Policy Brief | Tagged access, carbon emissions, climate change, co2, Dani Rodrik, developed, economy, energy, EU, Europe, European Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship, European Union, evaluation, global warming, globalization, governance, government, growth, Ha-Joon Change, health, Industrial Development Organization, industry, issue 6, jobs, Lisbon Strategy, Making It magazine, market, monitoring, national, policy, policymaking, population, project, R&D, research and development, sector, social, society, Tajani, UN, United Nations, urban
By Making It on 27 March, 2011
For business values, norms, ethics, private standards are one way of promoting social development and environmental sustainability
Posted in Policy Brief | Tagged business, civil society, competitive advantage, consumption, developing countries, ecologic, efficiency, environment, export, Global, globalization, governance, guideline, human rights, Industrial Development Organization, International, issue 5, liberalization, market, Müge Dolun Bora, national, policy, practices, private standards, production, regional, report, responsibility, safety, social, study, sustainability, technical regulation, trade, UNIDO, United Nations, workers' rights
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