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Globalization, governance and the G20

By Making It on 22 August, 2011

Why network governance needs to be transparent, inclusive, and responsive, to deal with issues as diverse as food safety, public health and financial regulation

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged accountability, bailout package 2008, Brazil, Bretton Woods, China, commodity price volatility, conflict, cooperation, countries, crisis, depressional, development, Doha Round, efficiency, emerging economies, financial regulation, food safety, g20, G8, Global, global governance, Global Governance Group, globalization, governance, government, Group of 20, Ian Bremmer, imf, India, Industrial Development Organization, Industry for development, institutions, International, international monetary fund, international organizations, issue 7, legitimacy, macro-economic imbalances, Making It, management, multi-polar world, multilateral trade negotiations, network, Norway, Nouriel Roubini, pascal lamy, Peter Sutherland, policymaking, power, protectionism, public health, standards, trade, transparency, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, United States, world, World Bank, World Trade Organization, WTO

Indonesia is top for entrepreneurs

By Making It on 18 August, 2011

Indonesia is the best place for entrepreneurs to start a business, a BBC survey has suggested. The USA, Canada, India and Australia are seen as among the next best countries at supporting new businesses.
The results come from a survey of more than 24,000 people across 24 countries. They were asked whether innovation was highly valued [...]

Posted in Extra! | Tagged agribusiness, BBC, business, countries, culture, East Asia, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, Europe, Global, globalization, Indonesia, Industrial Development Organization, innovation, International, issue 6, Making It, poll, practice, pro-private sector, results, russia, state sector, Sub-Saharan Africa, survey, the Pacific, trade, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, World Service

Agribusiness in Africa

By Making It on 7 April, 2011

Lucy Muchoki, CEO of the Pan African Agribusiness and Agro-Industry Consortium, tells Making It about agribusiness challenges in Africa, and how the future could look.

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Africa, agribusiness, agriculture, Angola, CEO, China, commodity, countries, credit, economic output, éducation, efficiency, empowerment, EU, European Union, export, farming, finance, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, food storage, foreign markets, future, GDP, global partnership, globalization, government, growth, import, independence, Industrial Development, infrastructure, investment, IT, jobs, labour, liberalization, Lucy Muchoki, MDGs, methodologies, Millennium Development Goals, Mozambique, opportunity, Pan African Agribusiness and Agro-Industry Consortium, PanAAC, poverty, price, private sector, rural population, science, small-scale, SME, sourcing, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tanzania, tax, traceability, UNIDO, United Nations, United States, urban, US, water sustainability, women, young people, youth

The poverty footprint

By Making It on 28 March, 2011

Mary Arnesen, Business and Markets Project Manager at Oxfam GB, introduces a new way to help companies understand how their business affects the people where they operate

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged advocacy, agenda, alleviation, assess, awareness, business, business relations, civil society, climate change, community, company, consumers, countries, credit, crime, culture, developing countries, disaster risk reduction, distribution, éducation, empowerment, environment, equality, footprint, framework, gender, Gerry Boyle, health care, idea, identity, India, Indonesia, Industrial Development Organization, institution, issue 5, jobs, Kyle Cahill, livelihood, macro-economic, Making It, manufacturing, market, Mary Arnesen, media, methodologies, metrics, morals, multi-dimensional, natural disasters, outsourcing, Oxfam America, Oxfam GB, policies, poor people, poverty, Poverty Footprint, power, production, qualitative, quantitative, reduction, report, research, rights, rules, security, social impact, stability, stakeholder, strategy, trade, transparency, UNIDO, Unilever, United Nations, value chain, values, violence

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