By Making It on 7 October, 2011
Raphael Kaplinsky discusses why industrialized and low- and middle-income countries need to look past the idea of resources as they know it today
Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged Albert Hirschman, climate, commodity-exporting, competition, convestional wisdom, decisionmakers, development, development policy, Dutch Disease, economies, economist, employment creation, exchange rates, exploitation, external economies, global trade, global value chains, globalization, government policy, historical experiences, Industrial Development, industrialization, industry, internationalism, issue 7, local industrial capabilities, Making It magazine, manufacturing, national system of innovation, natural resources, Open University, policy, policy brief, price-volatility, R&D, Raphael Kaplinsky, resource curse, statistics and research, sustainable surpluses, trade, UNIDO, United Nations Industrial Development Organization
By Making It on 1 March, 2011
Across the globe, the increasing mobility of goods and people is driving transport demand and CO2 emissions. What role does shipping play in trade, and climate change?
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged 2050, aid development, Aqualife, bunker fuel, Cancu, car, carbon dioxide emissions, carbon fee, cargo, challenge, chemicals, China, climate, climate change, co2, co2 footprint, COP15, COP16, demand, efficiency, energy, environment, enzymes, Equator, Framework Convention on Climate Change, germany, global agreement, global trade, globalization, goods, hot topic, ICT solutions, IMO, Industrial Development Organization, international agreement, International Maritime Organization, issue 5, Jacob Sterling, Kyoto Protocol, low-carbon economy, Maersk Line, Making It magazine, Maritime Environmental Protection Committee, mobility, modal switches, Northern Europe, people, performance, policymakers, potential, problem, regulation, report, sector, services, shipping, society, solar panels, solution, sustainable shipping, trade, Transformative Solution Leadership, transport, transportation, UNFCCC, UNIDO, United Nations, wind turbine, world
By Making It on 25 February, 2011
How sub-Saharan African countries can seize the new opportunities to advance their own development through trade with China
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged 1990s, Africa, agriculture, Cape Verde, chemicals, China, Chinese Ministry of Commerce, climate, commodity price shock, comparative advantage, competition, development, economic recovery, éducation, emerging economies, engine of development, environment, EU, Europe, European Union, export, FDI, financial crisis, food, foreign direct investment, GDP, Ghana, Global Competitiveness Index, global economy, government, growth rate, high-income countries, human, import, Industrial Development Organization, investment, issue 5, Jiying Plastic Products, Kenya, labour-intensive, lower-middle income countries, machinery, Making It, Mali, man-made products, manufactured goods, market, metals, natural, north-south trade, ore, petroleum, policy, raw material, resources, Rwanda, south-south trade, statistics, sub-Saharan, technology, trade, trade growth, transport equipment, UNIDO, United Nations, United States, vuvuzela, world, World Bank, world cup 2010, World Economic Forum, Xiao Ye, Zhejiang province
By Making It on 6 August, 2010
There is growing recognition that the potential contribution of the private sector to development far outstrips the potential impact of aid.
Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged Africa, banking sector, climate, climate change, developing countries, development, Fair Trade, Issue 3, microenterprises, microfinance, Millennium Development Goals, offset, Overseas Development Institute, poverty reduction, private sector, social responsibility, Washington Consensus
By Making It on 30 March, 2010
Helge Lund, President and CEO of Statoil, illustrates the growing importance of new carbon capture and storage technologies.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged carbon, carbon capture, CCS, change, climate, co2, development, emissions, energy, European Carbon Dioxide Test Centre at Mongstad, financing development, Helge Lund, industry, international energy agency, Issue 2, policy, Statoil, storage
By Making It on 30 March, 2010
According to Kandeh K. Yumkella and Leena Srivastava, energy access is the ‘missing’ MDG that will end the poverty trap.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Africa, Ban Ki-moon, business, climate, climate change, demand-side policies, development, development programme, Director-General, financing, GHG mitigation, Global, IEA, India, Industrial Development Organization, International, international energy agency, IPCC, Issue 2, MDG, Millennium Development Goals, NGO, policy, poverty reduction, private sector, renewable energy, Srivastava, TERI, UN, UNDP, UNIDO, United Nations, Yumkella
By Making It on 28 March, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum | Tagged 2009, action, BASIC Group, Bianca Jagger, China, climate, climate change, climate treaty, co2 emissions, Conference of Parties in Copenhagen, COP15, Copenhagen, deforestation, development, Issue 2, Norway, policy, pollution, REDD, United Nations, United States, Vapour money
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