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By Making It on 1 December, 2012
Hester Eisenstein on how global elites use women’s labour to exploit the world.
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged Angela Merkel, assembly operations, Bangladesh, capitalist exploitation, Caracol Industrial Park, cheap labour, China, economic empowerment of women, EPZs, Ester Boserup, export processing, Feminism Seduced, feminist, Ha-Joon Chang, Haiti, hester eisenstein, Hillary Clinton, hot topic, industrial policy, international financial institutions, Japan, Keynesian, La Pietra Coalition, maquiladoras, Naila Kabeer, Nicholas Kristof, Nike Foundation, patriarchal controls, Paul Krugman, Republic of Korea, Sae-A Trading, sweatshops, UNIDO, women, young women
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 23 February, 2011
Simon Maxwell on how to avoid the downsides of climate change – and how to capture the possible upsides too!
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum | Tagged adaptation, agriculture, Australia, batteries, Bolivia, business, capitalism, carbon emission, CDKN, challenge, Climate and Development Knowledge Network, climate change, climate compatible development, co2, coal, comparative advantage, Connie Hedegaard, development, dialogue, disruptive, energy, energy-intensive industries, epic scale, European Union's Climate Change Commissioner, experience, extreme weather, flood, future, global economy, globalization, government, heating, hydro, Indonesia, Industrial Development Organization, industrial policy, industrialists, infrastructure, innovation, International, investment, issue 5, lesson, lithium, livelihood, lobbies, long-term development, Making It, Maldives, market, mitigation, Napoleon, oil, Pakistan, policymakers, politics, post-petroleum age, poverty, product development, renewables, reserves, resources, restructuring, risk, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Schumpeter, short-term, Simon Maxwell, social impacts, societies, technology, temperature rise, trade, UNIDO, United Kingdom, United Nations, vietnam, warning, wind, wolar
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
By Making It on 5 August, 2010
Jayati Ghosh believes that state involvement in economic activity is now imperative, and that such involvement must be more democratic and accountable
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Bretton Woods, carbon-emitting production, communication, democratizing policy, developed countries, developing countries, éducation, electricity, fiscal, government, Gulf of Mexico, health, IDEAS, India, Industrial Development, industrial policy, infrastructure, International Development Economics Associates, Issue 3, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jayati Ghosh, late industrializers, monetary policy, National Knowledge Commission, New Delhi, nutrition, Quantitative Gross Domestic Product, sanitation, scales of production, stakeholders, sustainability, technology, transport, UNIDO
By Making It on 5 August, 2010
With the discrediting of orthodox policies, and the exposure of the double standards of the rich countries, industrial policy is no longer taboo. Ha-Joon Chang explains.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Asian Development Bank, Economic Development, European Investment Bank, export, financial crisis, global environment, import substitution industrialization, industrial policy, Issue 3, LDCs, Oxfam, political economy, privatization, trade, trade liberalization, University of Cambridge, Washington Consensus, World Bank, World Trade Organization, WTO
By Making It on 4 August, 2010
Industrial policy has a key role to play in the transition to a resource-efficient, low-carbon growth trajectory.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged beijing consensus, Brazil, China, Dani Rodrik, discovery process, dogmatic prescriptions, economic crisis, emerging economies, FDI, Field Operations Division, foreign direct investment, green industry, India, industrial policy, industry, investment, Issue 3, Joshua Cooper Ramo, Krugman, LDCs, least developed countries, low-carbon growth, Lütkenhorst, pragmatism, Regional Strategies, resources, Sir Nicholas Stern, stakeholders, State Environmental Protection Agency, UNIDO, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Viet Nam, Washington Consensus
By Making It on 25 July, 2010
The theme of this – the third – issue of Making It: Industry for Development is industrial policy.
In response to the global economic crisis, governments around the world are desperate to jump-start economic growth. Following the bailouts of the banks and car makers, more recently most of the world’s biggest economies [...]
Posted in The Magazine | Tagged industrial policy, Issue 3, Making It magazine, UNIDO, United Nations Industrial Development Organization
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