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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 8 September, 2011
Prigi Arisandi explains how a local movement is stopping industrial pollution from flowing into a river that provides drinking water for three million people in and around the Indonesian city of Surabaya.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged 2011 Goldman Environmental Prize, biodiversity and water pollution, corporate social responsibility, CSR, drinking water, East Java, Ecological Observation and Wetlands Conservation, Ecoton, environmental education programme, environmental law, fish and wild animals, global governance, government policy, government protection, how to stop pollution, Indonesia, Industrial Development Organization, industrial dumping, industrial pollution, industrial wastewater, issue 7, local movement, Making It, polluted river, preserving ecosystems, Prigi Arisandi, pulp and paper companies, Surabaya, Surabaya River, toxic, UN, UNIDO, United Nation, water-quality regulation, WHO, World Health Organization
By Making It on 10 May, 2011
Fátima Fialho, Cape Verde’s Minister of Tourism, Industry and Energy, on how her country graduated from the list of LDCs, and how it plans to develop as a middle-income country
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged African Development Bank Group, African development progress, article, beach hotels, Benito Mussolini, botswana, business environment, Cape Verde, commerce, conditions, deficit, develop, Donald Kaberuka, Economic Development, employment, enterprise, entrepreneurship, Fátima Fialho, FDI, feature, fisheries, foreign investment, GDP, global crisis, government policy, government services, Industrial Development, Industry and Energy, international trade, issue 5, ldc, least developed countries, light manufacturing industries, Making It, middle-income country, Minister of Tourism, money, ODA, official development assistance, oil, organization, poverty, private sector, privatization, remittances, resource, revenue, Sal, services sector, small population, trade, transport, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, World Trade Organization, WTO
By Making It on 7 December, 2009
By PAUL DICKINSON – founder and CEO of the Carbon Disclosure Project.
Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged Australia, British, carbon, Carbon Disclosure, CDP, emissions, energy, environment, EU, finance, government policy, greenhouse gas, Kyoto Protocol, New Zealand, Obama, P&G, Paul Dickinson, PepsiCo, risk, UK, United Nations, US
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