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By Making It on 1 December, 2012
Hester Eisenstein on how global elites use women’s labour to exploit the world.
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged Angela Merkel, assembly operations, Bangladesh, capitalist exploitation, Caracol Industrial Park, cheap labour, China, economic empowerment of women, EPZs, Ester Boserup, export processing, Feminism Seduced, feminist, Ha-Joon Chang, Haiti, hester eisenstein, Hillary Clinton, hot topic, industrial policy, international financial institutions, Japan, Keynesian, La Pietra Coalition, maquiladoras, Naila Kabeer, Nicholas Kristof, Nike Foundation, patriarchal controls, Paul Krugman, Republic of Korea, Sae-A Trading, sweatshops, UNIDO, women, young women
By Making It on 19 September, 2012
Although many companies have banned sandblasting, garment workers are still being asked to risk their lives for fashion.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Bangladesh, Clean Clothes Campaign, crystalline silica, Dolce and Gabbana, Dominique Muller, garment workers, Gucci, International Labour Organization, Killer Jeans Campaign, Levi Strauss and Co, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, sandblasting, Silicosis, Turkey, Turkish Solidarity Committee of Sandblasting Labourers, workers’ health, World Health Organization, worn-look jeans
By Making It on 17 September, 2012
Making It speaks to K. M. Rezaul Hasanat, CEO of the Viyellatex Group, the Bangladeshi textiles and apparel manufacturing company
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Bangladesh, Bangladeshi textiles and apparel manufacturing company, Calvin Klein, carbon neutral, Dhaka, effluent water, energy, energy-saving technology, environmental protection, Global Reporting Initiative, Good Business, Green Business Entrepreneurship, green industry, Industrial Development, K. M. Rezaul Hasanat, labour standards, Making It, manufacturing garments, Puma, rainwater, shareholders, steam, sustainability, sustainable development, Sustainable Energy for All initiative, sustainable industrial development, sustainable initiative, tea production, Tommy Hilfiger, UN Private Sector Forum, UNESCAP, UNIDO, United Nations Global Compact, Viyellatex Group
By Making It on 2 December, 2011
Paul Polak believes corporations can will only remain competitive in the global marketplace by creating vibrant new markets that serve customers living on less than two US dollars a day
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum | Tagged Bangladesh, Cambodia, cheaper, Coca-Cola, competition, corporate interest, éducation, effective, efficient, Ethiopia, Europe, FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization, Gates Foundation, gender equality, health, human-powered irrigation, IDE, income-generating products, India, Industrial Development, innovation, International Development Enterprises, investion, issue 8, less than US$2, limitless electricity, Making It magazine, microsoft, Myanmar, Nepal, Paul Polak, power, profit, profitable business, safe drinking water, Spring Health, the future of corporations, treadle pump, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, United States, Viet Nam, Wal-Mart, women's issue, Zambia, Zimbabwe
By Making It on 11 September, 2011
A country feature on the possibility of Bangladesh’s graduation from LDC status, and exclusive interview with the Minister of Industries
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged agriculture, Bangladesh, Bangladeshi Minister of Industries, capitalism, collective, competition, country features, Debapriya Bhattacharya, democratic deliberation, development, Dilip Barua, economic arrangements, emerging market economy, gender equality, Global, global commons, global ecosystem, globalization, governance, graduations from LDC status, green industry, growth, imbalance, individualism, Industrial Development, inequality, institutions, International, interview, issue 7, ldc, Least Developed Country, macroeconomic, Making It, market, MDGs, nation state, opportunities, policy, political economy, politics, productivity, regulation, stabilization, subsidies, sustainability, technology transfer, trade, UN, UNIDO, United Nations
By Making It on 25 August, 2011
Never has the world been more interdependent, never has it been more shaped by technological, economic and social progress – and never has it been more vulnerable to economic and environmental shocks and political failure. Our global economic, social and political systems have been under great pressure for a while, and the future appears uncertain. [...]
Posted in The Magazine | Tagged 3rd quarter 2011, Bangladesh, barefoot economist, chile, Chris Goodall, cleaning up the river, Dani Rodrik, Dilip Barua, Dylan Geraets, environmentalist, g20, globalization, globalization paradox, Goldman Environmental Prize, governance, governing a globalized world, green industry, Group of 20, Hedda Oehlberger-Femundesenden, Indonesia, Industrial Development Organization, interview, issue 7, Jan Wouters, José Etcheverry, Katherine Lucey, Making It magazine, Manfred Max-Neef, Mark Malloch Brown, Minister of Industries, nuclear power, opportunity, poverty, Prigi Arisandi, rio+20, shortcomings, solar micro-business3, Solar Sister, Surabaya, Thomas Pogge, UN, unfair share, UNIDO, United Nations, world
By Making It on 30 March, 2010
Key to Grameen Shakti’s success was the deliberate drive to involve women in the take-up of renewable energy …
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Bangladesh, Barua, development, entrepreneurship, financing development, Grameen Shakti, Issue 2, policy, renewable energy, solar, solar nations, solar power
By Making It on 7 December, 2009
Interview with Hélène Pelosse, Interim Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Posted in All Posts, Features, Policy Brief | Tagged Abu Dhabi, Ban Ki-moon, Bangladesh, development, electricity, energy, financing, Grameen Shakti, Hélène Pelosse, India, IRENA, Morocco, production, renewable energy, UN, United Nations
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