By Making It on 16 November, 2012
In Côte d’Ivoire, UNIDO has created a support mechanism to help integrate young people into the job market.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged access to funding, Africa, Alassane Ouattara, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Côte d’Ivoire, Côte d’Ivoire, credit, Doris Hribernigg, East Africa, éducation, employment, employment-generating potential, income-generating, La Chaîne de l’Emploi, Le Fonds d’Appui à l’Entreprenariat des Jeunes, technical training, UNIDO, voactional, youth, youth entrepreneurship
By Making It on 31 October, 2012
Professor Klaus M. Leisinger, chair of the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development, explores some of the issues at the intersection between industry and health.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged access to medicines, Africa, Arogya Parivar, basic health rights, counterfeit medicines, CSR, generics, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, global health, intellectual property, Klaus M. Leisinger, LDCs, Making It, malaria, MDGs, Medicines for Malaria Venture, Millennium Development Goals, non-governmental organizations, Novartis, Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development, pharmaceutical industry, public health resources, research-based pharmaceutical corporations, sanitation, UN Global Compact, Working Group on Access to Essential Medicines, World Health Organization Essential Medicines List, World Health Report
By Making It on 3 October, 2012
Jürgen Reinhardt on the latest developments regarding the local production of pharmaceuticals in Africa.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Africa, African pharmaceutical manufacturers, AU Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plan for Africa, drug regulatory authorities, Global Fund to Fight Aids, Good Manufacturing Practices, Investment and Technology Services Branch, Jürgen Reinhardt, LPP, Making It magazine, medicines, pandemics, patients, pharmaceutical industry, public health systems, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tuberculosis and Malaria, UNIDO Business
By Making It on 22 August, 2012
In terms of international development, it is often taken for granted that wealth inevitably leads to health, and that therefore only the countries with wealthier economies will be able to foster the conditions for a healthier population. In this context, international development efforts usually focus on interventions to kick-start economic growth, on the assumption that [...]
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By Making It on 24 February, 2012
Corinne Schoch asks if militarizing climate change might harm those communities most affected by the problem
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged Africa, agricultural yields, Al Gore, Ban Ki-moon, Barack Obama, climate change, Climate Change Group, Cold War, Corinne Schoch, Darfur crisis, development, economic downturn, economy, environment, global security community, green industry, HIV/AIDS, human security, humanitarian responsibility, IIED, Industrial Development Organization, institutions, International Institute for Environment and Development, international security, IPCC, issue 9, Making It, migration, militarizing climate change, NATO, Nicolas Sarkozy, our low-carbon future, policy, political instability, poor governance, population, productivity, resource efficiency, resources, social cohesion, sustainable industry, UN Security Council, UNDP, UNIDO, United Nations, water resources
By Making It on 16 February, 2012
The Legatum Prosperity Index provides the world’s only global assessment of national prosperity based on both wealth and well-being
Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged Africa, Americas, Asia-Pacific Region, Australia, botswana, Canadá, chile, China - Hong Kong SAR, China - Taiwan, Costa Rica, definition of prosperity, Denmark, economy, éducation, Entrepreneurship and opportunity, Europe, Finland, GDP, Ghana, global assessment of national prosperity, governance, happy healthy and free citizens, Industrial Development Organization, Israel, issue 9, Kuwait, Legatum Prosperity Index, Making It magazine, Mali, Middle East and North Africa, Namibia, New Zealand, Norway, our low-carbon future, personal freedom, safety and security, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, social capital, South Africa, sustainable industrial development, Sweden, Switzerland, The Prosperity Index, the United States, Tunisia, UN, UNIDO, United Arab Emirates, United Nations, Uruguay, wealth and well-being
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