By Making It on 14 September, 2011
Katherine Lucey introduces a social enterprise that provides women with training and support to create solar micro-businesses
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged aid, air quality, Avon-style business, clean energy, distribution of clean energy, economic opportunity, empowerment, energy, energy poverty, energy technology, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, family income, global climate change, hazardous, household, Industrial Development, inefficient, innovative market-based approach, insufficient, issue 7, Katherine Lucey, kerosene lanterns, LED lighting technology, light, Making It, micro-consignment business model, Mpigi, population, poverty reduction, rural women in Africa, social enterprise, solar micro-business, Solar Sister, solar technology, training and support, uganda, UN, UNIDO, women, women's social networks
By Making It on 30 June, 2011
Country feature on Ethiopia, including Prime Minister Meles Zenawi speaking about his vision for sustainable development
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Africa, African Union, agribusiness, aid, bio-fuels, carbon emissions, China, Christianity, clean, Conference of Ministers of Economy and Finance, conflict, construction, country feature, degradation, dependency, developing country, development, developmental aid, developmental state, economy, energy, environment, Ethiopia, famine, finance, food crisis, g20, geo-thermal, Global, globalization, government, green, growth, helter-skelter, human rights, hunger, hydropower, impoverished, independence, Industrial Development Organization, infrastructure, institutional growth, international loans, investment, Islam, issue 6, liberalization, local, Making It magazine, manufacturing, Meles Zenawi, modern, neo-liberal paradigm, Oromia, Peter Gill, policy, poverty, power, Prime Minister, private sector, public investment, re-forestation, renewable resources, resources, roads, social sector, sugar production, sustainable future, transport, UN, UNIDO, United Nations
By Making It on 23 March, 2011
An interview with Satish Chand on island states, rising sea levels, and economic dynamics created by their small size and isolation
Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged 2011, Africa, aid, airport, Asian Development Bank, biodiversity, Caribbean, coconut, coral, culture, customs, economic vulnerability, éducation, employment, environment, ethnic group, export, fertility, Fiji, fishing, freshwater, Gambia, GDP, global warming, Guadacanal, health, Indian Ocean, infrastructure, instability, land, landlocked, language, ldc, least developed countries, Line Islands, low-lying islands, Malaita, management, marine ecosystems, marine resource development, Marshall Islands, migration, mobility, Nepal, ocean, pacific, Pacific Island states, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, production, Satish Chand, sea, sea levels, seaweed, Solomon Islands, temperature, territory, tourism, unesco, vulnerable, water, World Bank
By Making It on 1 December, 2010
Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, identifies how Africa can realize its manufacturing potential
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged access, Africa, aid, biotech, business, capital, Central Bank of Nigeria, communication, corporate governance, credit market, development, diversification, donor, economic growth, electronics, employment, exchange market, Industrial Develoment Organization, industrial revolution, industrialization, inflation, information, innovation, internal capacity, investable funds, investment, issue 4, local, machinery industries, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Manufactured Value Added, manufacturing potential, MDG, methodology, Millennium Development Goals, MVA, new agriculture, policy, political environment, resources, Sanusi, software, technology, TFP, total factor productivity, UN, UN Economic Commission for Africa, UNIDO, United Nations
By Making It on 29 November, 2010
By developing productive capacities, LDCs can rely increasingly on domestic resources to finance their economic growth, and attract capital inflows that support them
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged added value, agribusiness, agriculture, aid, Brussels Programme of Action, capital, Cheick Sidi Diarra, commodity prices, Conference on Trade and Development, credit, deveopment, emerging markets, employment, energy, export, GDP growth, geographic disadvantages, global economic crisis, governance, import, incentives, Industrial Development, infrastructure, international markets, investment, issue 4, ldc, least developed countries, MDG, Millennium Development Goals, modernization, multilateral support, poverty reduction, productive capacity, resource gap, revenues, saving, sustainability, systems, technology, transport, UN, UNCTAD, United Nations, US
By Making It on 23 November, 2010
The WBCSD sees a flourishing partnership for economic growth and environmental well-being
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged aid, commerce, corruption, developing countries, distribution, economic growth, environmental well-being, Filippo Veglio, globalization, government, income, jobs, Making It magazine, Marcel Engel, marketing, markets, policy, population, poverty, poverty reduction, private sector, production, prosperity, public sector, SMEs, telecommunications, trade, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, WBCSD, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
By Making It on 12 November, 2010
Country feature on Kiribati with an interview with His Excellency Anote Tong, President of Kiribati
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged 2010, aid, Anote Tong, Aranteiti Tekiau, Asian Development Bank, biodiversity, coconut, coral, economic vulnerability, export, fishing, GDP, Gilbert Islands, global warming, health, instability, issue 4, Kiribati, ldc, least developed countries, Line Islands, management, marine ecosystems, marine resource development, ministry of fisheries, ocean, pacific, Pheonix Islands, PIPA, President of Kiribati, production, Ribwanataake Awira, sea, sea levels, seaweed, Tarawa, temperature, territory, tourism, UN general assembly, unesco, World Bank
By Making It on 11 November, 2010
Ranil Dissanayake was trained as an economist and historian. He now specializes in aid effectiveness, and can also be found blogging at AidThoughts
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged Africa, aid, aidthoughts, Asia, bureaucracy, capital, capitalism, Chris Bayly, clean development, commercial farming, Dar es Salaam, development, Doing Business report, economy, entrepreneurship, financing development, geography, Haiti, Hernando De Soto, history, incentives, issue 4, labour, Marx, policy, politics, potential, power, pre-colonial, property, returns, security, stability, system, the Birth of the Modern World, The Mystery of Capital, third world, trade, World Bank
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