Global Forum
Does microfinance work?
With all the media hype surrounding new online lending platforms, such as Kiva.org, the time is right to ask if microfinance really is an effective poverty reduction tool
Making it happen — An entrepreneur’s perspective: Mexico
David Maauad is a Mexican businessman who runs two garment production companies in Pachuca, Hidalgo State, Mexico. He has been involved in the textile business for over 30 years. His two companies employ 350 workers engaged in the design, cut, assembly, and finishing of industrial uniforms and shirts for men and boys.
Green economy — The race to the top
Making It magazine interview with Hunter Lovins, author and promoter of sustainable development for over 30 years. She is the co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute and founder of Natural Capitalism, Inc.
After Copenhagen
In 2004, Bianca Jagger received the Right Livelihood Award, known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’, for her “long-standing commitment and dedicated campaigning over a wide range of issues of human rights, social justice, and environmental protection”. She is the founder and chair of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation.
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The experience of participating at the Copenhagen [...]
Green industry in Asia
Managing the transition to resource efficient and low carbon industries in Asia
Biofuels: a right to food perspective
Jean Ziegler, vice-chairperson of the Advisory Committee of the United Nations Human Rights Council, and former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (2000-2008).
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Every five seconds a child below ten years of age dies from hunger. Every four minutes somebody loses his/her eye-sight from a lack of Vitamin A. Every day 25,000 people [...]
Bioenergy development in sub-Saharan Africa
Stephen Karekezi and John Kimani – AFREPREN/FWD (Energy, Environment, and Development Network for Africa), a non-governmental organization based in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Recent high oil and coal prices, as well as an intensified debate about climate change, have led many analysts to suggest that modern bioenergy development could mitigate the negative impacts of unstable fossil fuel [...]
Making it happen — An entrepreneur’s perspective: Viet Nam
An entrepreneur’s perspective: Viet Nam.
Truong Anh Tuan is the CEO of iWay JSC (Information Way Joint Stock Company), an IT company based in the Dong Da district of the city of Hanoi in the north of Viet Nam. The 35-year-old Tuan founded the company in April 2004.
Prosperity without growth…?
Economic growth is supposed to deliver prosperity. Higher incomes should mean better choices, richer lives, and an improved quality of life for us all. That, at least, is the conventional wisdom. But things haven’t always turned out that way.
Is ‘green growth’ really possible?
At a logical level, the answer to the question is a resounding yes.
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