Policy Brief
The private sector and development
There is growing recognition that the potential contribution of the private sector to development far outstrips the potential impact of aid.
The power of patient capital
The founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, Jacqueline Novogratz, uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty
Revealing research results
Even at an advanced level of development, only a few sectors are likely to surpass the food and beverage industry’s output level.
Grassroots industrial policies
Today’s grassroots approach to poverty reduction shouldn’t be equated simply with boot-strap operations or self-help schemes. The bottom-up policies and institutions that are now being experimented with in Africa and other poor regions have highly innovative elements.
Financing renewable energy
Extracted from Private financing of renewable energy – a guide for policymakers written by Sophie Justice, and published jointly by the Renewable Energy Finance Project, Chatham House; Bloomberg New Energy Finance; and the UNEP Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative.
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A broad range of financial institutions are now investing in or lending money to the renewable energy (RE) [...]
How policy-makers can make a difference
Marianne Osterkorn, Director General of REEEP (Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership), tells Making It about some of the organization’s experience of 130 targeted projects over the past five years. REEEP is a global partnership that works to reduce the barriers limiting the uptake of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies, with a primary focus [...]
Getting FiT
Miguel Mendonça is the research manager at the World Future Council
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A feed-in tariff (FiT) is a renewable energy law that obliges energy suppliers to buy electricity produced from renewable resources at a fixed price, usually over a fixed period.
The feed-in tariff mechanism has been used in over 50 countries worldwide, driving the majority of renewable [...]
Power to the people
Interview with Hélène Pelosse, Interim Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Corporate Social Responsibility: doing well… and doing good
The emergence of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) over the past decade quickly gave rise to the expectation that private business would tackle some of the world’s most pressing economic, social and environmental problems.
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