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Africa-China: A path to mutual prosperity?

By Making It on 25 February, 2011

How sub-Saharan African countries can seize the new opportunities to advance their own development through trade with China

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged 1990s, Africa, agriculture, Cape Verde, chemicals, China, Chinese Ministry of Commerce, climate, commodity price shock, comparative advantage, competition, development, economic recovery, éducation, emerging economies, engine of development, environment, EU, Europe, European Union, export, FDI, financial crisis, food, foreign direct investment, GDP, Ghana, Global Competitiveness Index, global economy, government, growth rate, high-income countries, human, import, Industrial Development Organization, investment, issue 5, Jiying Plastic Products, Kenya, labour-intensive, lower-middle income countries, machinery, Making It, Mali, man-made products, manufactured goods, market, metals, natural, north-south trade, ore, petroleum, policy, raw material, resources, Rwanda, south-south trade, statistics, sub-Saharan, technology, trade, trade growth, transport equipment, UNIDO, United Nations, United States, vuvuzela, world, World Bank, world cup 2010, World Economic Forum, Xiao Ye, Zhejiang province

The impact of business on the MDGs

By Making It on 4 November, 2010

With the deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) only five years away, questions have been raised as to the effectiveness of the private sector in influencing progress towards their achievement. A new study assesses the contributions of 20 well-known multinational companies towards influencing the MDGs.

Posted in Extra! | Tagged 2010, beneficiary, business, Business Impact Report, corporations, CSR, deadline, development, economy, human, Industrial Development, market, MDG, Millennium Development Goals, multinational companies, private sector, responsibility

From steam engines to human consciousness

By Making It on 22 September, 2010

Industrialization will continue to be the most important avenue of future development, but Alfredo Sfeir-Younis says it needs to be about people.

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged abundance, agrarian economy, Alfredi Sfeir-Younis, antibiotics, business, challenges, chile, Cho Tab Khen Zambuling, competition, consumers, corporate social responsibility, corporations, CSR, developing countries, development, earth, empowerment, entrepreneurship, Europe, exclusion, external environment, finance, ford, freedom, GNP, happiness, history, human, human rights, impacts, independence, industrial, industrialization, interaction, intercommunication, interconnected, Issue 3, justice, labour, life, love, machines, management, managers, opportunities, owners, peace, people, Princeton University, processes, production, productivity, profits, quality of life, security, self-realization, social, solidarity, stockholders, sustainability, technology, trade, traders, UNIDO, United Nations, urban, values, wealth, workers, world, World Bank, Zambuling Institute for Human Transformation

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Africa-China: A path to mutual prosperity?

The impact of business on the MDGs

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