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By Making It on 18 October, 2012
Making It profiles Viet Nam, Asia’s ‘rising dragon’, and interviews Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged APEC, ASEAN, Asia, Doi Moi, economic growth, FDI, high value-added manufacturing sectors, industrial diversification, industrial policy, Making It, manufacturing, market-based socialist economy, middle-income trap, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, structural change, technological change, technology ladder, trade liberalization, UNIDO, Viet Nam, Viet Nam Industrial Competitiveness Report 2011, WTO
By Making It on 5 September, 2012
Approximately 1.3 billion young people in the world today are between the ages of 15 and 24. That’s a quarter of the world’s population of working age. However, young people are disproportionately affected by unemployment, underemployment and vulnerable employment. Even during periods of economic growth, many economies have been unable to absorb large youth populations [...]
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By Making It on 3 September, 2012
Turkey’s Ambassador to the UN, Ertuğrul Apakan, considers the prospects for youth in the Least Developed Countries.
Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged chronic unemployment and underemployment, development, economic growth, global economic growth, International, international community, IPoA, Istanbul, jobs, ldc, LDC-IV, least developed countries, Least Developed Country, Millennium Development Goals, rio+20, Sustainable Development Goals, sustainable growth, Turkey, unemployment, United Nations, youth, youth employment
By Making It on 8 March, 2012
The front cover of the “We can do it!” issue of Making It has been the subject of many appreciative comments but also quite a few asking about the origins of the image. Here is a brief explanation.
Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged 1943, 4th quarter 2011, Carolina Guerra, Cartier Women's Initiative Awards, Charles Arthur, climate change, climate treaty, Colombia, country feature, eco-entrepreneur, economic growth, empowering and educating women, empowerment, empowerment of women, end of growth, Europe, European Union, feminism, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, girls, Global Green Growth Forum, green growth, ICHET, ICRW, illustration, Industrial Development, interview, Ireland, issue 8, Jan O'Sullivan, Janez Potocnik, Lauren Brassaw, Lebanon, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, Making It, Mali, Matthew Lockwood, Maya Zankoul, Michelle Bachelet, Norman Rockwell, Omar Traboulsi, Paul Polak, renewable energy, Richard Heinberg, Rosie the Riveter, Saturday Evening Post, Soroptomist, South Africa, sustainability, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, UN Women, UNIDO, We can do it, WIEGO, women, women entrepreneurs, Zoe Elena Horn
By Making It on 23 November, 2011
‘Women hold up half the sky’ is a Chinese proverb affirming women’s equal contribution to the human experience but it is an aspirational, rather than a factual, claim. In developed and developing countries alike, gender gaps persist in education, health, work, wages and political participation.
For this issue of Making It, the theme is gender equality [...]
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By Making It on 13 September, 2011
For centuries, Afghanistan has been a leader in carpet production, but years of political instability have damaged the industry. Charles Arthur traces the Afghan carpet’s journey from point of production to point of sale
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged access to education, Afghan soil, Afghan women weavers, Afghanistan, Arzu Studio Hope, carpet production, carpet retail business in Vienna, Charles Arthur, Connie Duckworth, cycle of poverty, Dari, dealers, difficult to import carpets, Dubai, economic activity, economic growth, Europe, free-standing looms, George Vartian, global investment banking firm, global recession, Goldman Sachs, healthcare, Herat, high-quality carpet, human rights, Industrial Development, innovative model of social entrepreneurship, instability, international community, issue 5, Karachi, lack of investment, landlocked, legal export, local, long-term investment, Making It, manufacturing, mountainous country, Nangarhar province, network of weavers, newly established international sales hub in Istanbul, North America, northern Afghanistan, northern provinces, Pakistan, Pakistani exporters, Peshawar, rural, Russian buyers, significant growth and export potential, small-scale, sourcing and selling, steady income, Taliban regime, trade, transportation challenges, Tremayne, Turkey, UNIDO, US Afghan Women's Council, US Agency for International Development, US consulting company, US Departments of the Interior and Defence, USAID, value-added, violence, warfare, wholesalers, women
By Making It on 25 August, 2011
Thomas Pogge breaks down narratives about our efforts to fight world poverty and exposes a series of broken promises and rigged initiatives
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged aflluent countries, anti-dumping, banks, Branko Milanovic, China, climate change, corruption, developing countries, development assistance, DRC, economic growth, economic system, economy, efficiency, embezzlement, employment, endemic malaria, extreme poverty, extreme weather, feudal system, Food and Agriculture Organization, free market, GFI, global economic growth, Global Financial Integrity, global warming, governing a globalized world, government, green, health, hunger, impoverishment, Indonesia, institutional design, institutional reform, issue 7, Kofi Annan, lenders, Making It magazine, MDGs, media, Millennium Declaration, Millennium Development Goals, natural resources, Nigeria, oppression, politics, pollution, poor, population, post-MDG era, premature deaths, private foreign aid, public foreign aid, rising sea levels, Rome Declaration, statistics, sustainability, sustainable, Thomas Pogge, trade, UN, UN FAO, undernutrition, UNIDO, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, United States, weapons, World Bank, World Food Security, world poverty, Yale University
By Making It on 10 August, 2011
Defining governance challenges in the era of globalization, and outlining some policy implications resulting from the revelation that most of the world’s poor live in middle-income countries
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged accountability, adaptation, agribusiness, aid instruments, Andy Sumner, Angola, Cameroon, China, climate change, community, demography, development assistance, development policy, economic growth, éducation, financial responsibility, Global, global warming, globalization, governance, government, healthcare, humanitarian situations, income, India, Indonesia, Industrial Development, inequality, insecurity, Institute of Development Studies, International, issue 6, issue 7, knowledge, LICs, low-income countries, magazine, Making It, MDG, MICs, middle-income countries, migration, Millennium Declaration, Millennium Development Goals, new bottom billion, Nigeria, official development assistance, Pakistan, policy, policymakers, poor, population, poverty, poverty reduction, R2P, relative poverty, resources, responsibility to protect, rich, security, strategy, Sub-Saharan Africa, Sudan, tax, trade, transitioning, understanding, UNICEF, UNIDO, United Nations, urbanization, wealth, World Bank, World Development Indicators
By Making It on 28 July, 2011
Nestlé’s Paul Bulcke recognizes success depends on creating value for everyone – from farmers to consumers – and discusses how to achieve it
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged advice, agribusiness, agriculture, ambition, Brazil, business, child labour, civil society, community involvement, consumers, creating shared value, CSV, deforestation footprint, doing business, economic growth, economic reality, employment, environment, food security, future, global export, globalization, Harvard, HIV, hope, Industrial Development Organization, infrastructure, interconnectivity, interdependence, investment, issue 6, local government, Making It magazine, Michael Porter, micronutrients, milk, mutual value, Nestlé, nutrition, Paul Bulcke, poverty, product strategy, roads, rural development, social benefits, societal advancement, South Africa, supply chain, sustainability, sustainable business practices, UN, UN Global Compact, UNIDO, United Nations, unwelcome, vaccines, values, water, water management, Water Mandate, Water Resources Group, water treatment systems, working together, World Economic Forum
By Making It on 16 June, 2011
Energy efficiency leads to increased productivity and economic output, reduced demand, reduced energy bills and an enhanced security of energy supply
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged agribusiness, Asia, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Asian, behavior, California, challenges, clean, climate change, co2, complex, consciousness, decarbonization, developing countries, economic growth, effectiveness, emerging markets, employment, Energy Emergence: Rebound and Backfire as Emergent Phenomena, energy supply, environment, Europe, European, fossil fuel, GDP, Ghana, global partnership, globalization, Industrial Development Organization, industry, issue 6, Japan, jurisdiction, Making It magazine, Marianne Moscoso-Osterkorn, measures, Philippines, planet, policy, policymakers, rebound effect, REEEP, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership, technology, Thailand, The Breakthrough Institute, theory, UNIDO, United Nations, United States of America, US, USA
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