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Reasons to be both hugely disappointed and very excited

Reasons to be both hugely disappointed and very excited

By Making It on 27 August, 2012

Paul Hohnen on ‘greenwash’, sustainable development, and what governments and the UN need to do to save the planet.

Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged business, China, climate change, energy, energy efficiency, environment, environmental sustainability, free market, Global Reporting Initiative, green economy, green energy, green industry, green innovation, green technology, greenhouse gas, greenwash, Industrial Development, international agreement, Making It magazine, multinational companies, natural resources, oil, Paul Hohnen, pollution, resources, rio+20, solar power, sustainability, sustainable, sustainable business practices, sustainable development, sustainable economic growth, sustainable energy, Sustainable Energy for All, sustainable future, sustainable growth, sustainable production, Sustainablity strategies, technology, UN Private Sector Focal Points, UNIDO, United Nations, wind energy, wind power

Manufacturing still matters

Manufacturing still matters

By Making It on 15 March, 2012

Popular economist, Ha-Joon Chang, answers questions about the race to the bottom, going green and the Occupy movement

Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged Bad Samaritans book, BRICS, China, comparative advantage, development, does industry still matter, economic size, Economist magazine, free market, free trade view, Global, Global Green Growth Institute, going green, Ha-Joon Chang, Haiti, Industrial Development, industrial policy, International, interview, Justin Lin, kicking away the ladder, legitimacy, Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought, manufacturing, natural resources, Occupy economics, Occupy movement, popular economist, race to the bottom, resource-efficient development, South Korea, Taiwán, UK, UNIDO expert group meeting, United Nations, University of Cambridge, world, World Bank, zero sum game

Unfair share

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