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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

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

The challenges faced by small island states

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

On the climate frontlines

By Making It on 12 November, 2010

Industry accounts for almost 40% of global CO2 emissions, and CO2 is one of the main contributors to the greenhouse effect. Pacific Islander Krishneil Narayan calls for action to save the region from looming disaster.

Posted in All Posts, Global Forum | Tagged Alliance of Small Island States, AOSIS, Cancún, Carteret Islands, climate change, climate frontlines, co2, COP15, COP16, culture, emissions, Fiji, food, Funafuti, GHG, greenhouse effect, Industrial Development Organization, industrial policy, industrialized nations, issue 4, lifestyle, Making It magazine, Mexico, pacific ocean, Papua New Guinea, Project Survival Pacific, PSP, resources, SIDS, small island developing states, Solomon Islands, supply, sustainable, tradition, Tuvaluans, UNIDO, United Nations, water, weather

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