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By Making It on 10 January, 2013
Country feature: Costa Rica, including an interview with Mayi Antillón, Minister of Economy, Industry and Trade
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Central America, Chamber of Industries of Costa Rica, competitiveness, Costa Rica, Costa Rica EMPRENDE, Desarrollo de la Zona Brunca, Economic Development, FTZs, Guanacaste, Happy Planet Index, inclusive development, industrialization, Industry and Trade, Intel, Joaquin Fuentes-Cardona, Laura Chinchilla, Limón, Mayi Antillón, Minister of Economy, Partido Liberación Nacional, UNIDO
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 26 August, 2011
Governments are re-evaluating their nuclear plans, but are their fears misplaced? Chris Goodall and José Etcheverry are both environmentalists, but are divided on nukes
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged Chris Goodall, climate change, creativity, debate, Denmark, economy, electricity, environmentalist, feed-in tariffs, fossil fuels, fourth-generation nuclear, Fukushima, germany, global warming, grid, hydropower, Industrial Development, industrialization, industry, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, International, International Renewable Energy Agency, IPCC, IRENA, Japan, José Etcheverry, low carbon energy, Making It magazine, mining, nuclear disaster, nuclear energy, reactor, reliance, renewable energy policies, renewables, solar, solar panels, tsunami, turbine, UK, UNIDO, United Nation, water, wind, wind power, zero-carbon
By Making It on 15 June, 2011
Patrick Kormawa argues that a shift to an agribusiness development growth trajectory is crucial for poverty reduction
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged 2011, Abuja, Africa, agribusiness, agriculture, agro-processing, capital, clean, dependency, development, East Asia, economic growth strategies, efficient, energy, exploiting, financing, food security, GDP, Global, globalization, green, green revolution, growth, human resource, Industrial Development Organization, industrialization, infrastructure, innovation, institution, intervention, issue 6, labour-intensive, land, Latin America and the Caribbean, low-carbon, Making It magazine, modernity, nation, Nigeria, Patrick Kormawa, policy, policymaker, poverty reduction, private enterprise, prosperity, public, Recycling, renewable, services, social stability, Sough Asia, South Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, sustainability, sustainable intensification, systems, technology, Thailand, The Future of Food and Farming, transparency, UNIDO, United Nations, urbanization, value addition, World Bank, youth employment, Zimbabwe
By Making It on 11 June, 2011
An interview with founder of the Indian environmental organization, Navdanya, which promotes biodiversity, organic farming, and seed saving
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged agribusiness, agriculture, Asia, Bhavani Prakash, biodiverse systems, biodiversity, bt cotton, business, conservation, corporations, cotton, Davdanya, developing countries, development, earth, eco-feminist, ecological footprint, ecological memory, economy, ecowalkthetalk.com, environmental work, food systems, generosity, genetic engineering, globalization, herbicide-resilient crops, industrialization, industry, intellectual property, monocultures, multiplicity, nature, NGO, north India, organic farming, renewal, rights of farmers, seed saving, suicide, super-weeds, technology, toxic, UNEP, Uttaranchal, Vandana Shiva
By Making It on 20 April, 2011
Two British greens give their backing to nuclear power
Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged Birmingham, calamitous, climate change, earthquake, economy, England, Europe, extra content, fossil fuels, fourth-generation nuclear, Fukushima, George Monbiot, global warming, grid, hydropower, Industrial Development, industrialization, industry, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, International, IPCC, Japan, low carbon energy, Making It magazine, Mark Lynas, mining, nuclear disaster, nuclear energy, reactor, reliance, renewables, small-scale production, solar panels, sun, tsunami, turbine, UK, UNIDO, United Nations, Wales, water, wind, wind power, wood, worthless, zero-carbon
By Making It on 12 March, 2011
Professor Colin McCarthy discusses regional integration in sub-Saharan Africa, and what needs to happen before it can work
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged 2010, Africa, agreement, arrangement, barriers, business, clients, Colin McCarthy, commercial, commitment, communications, competitiveness, costs, credit, developed economies, documentation, economy, external tariff, finance, free trade, globalization, goods, government, Industrial Development Organization, industrialization, infrastructure, International, intraregional, issue 5, landlocked, ldc, Least Developed Country, liberalization, Making It magazine, policy, professional, progress, regional integration, revenue, RIA, services, standardization, sub-Sahara, trade, trade barriers, Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, TRALAC, transport, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, University of Stellenbosch, World Trade Organization, WTO, Zambia, Zimbabwe
By Making It on 4 March, 2011
This issue of Making It: Industry for Development focuses on recent developments in global trade.
In the keynote article, Peter Sutherland, a former Director-General of the World Trade Organization, argues that a conclusion of the Doha Round is essential if all countries are to share the benefits of global trade. Highlighting the link between trade growth [...]
Posted in The Magazine | Tagged Africa, Cape Verde, carbon footprint, China, climate compatible development, co2 emissions, Colin McCarthy, debate, Doha Round, engine of development, feature, Industrial Development Organization, industrialization, Industry for development, interview, invitation, issue 5, ldc, Making It, manufacturing, Peter Sutherland, policy, president, Timor-Leste, trade, UNIDO, United Nations, World Bank, world economy, World Trade Organization, WTO, Xiao Ye
By Making It on 1 December, 2010
Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, identifies how Africa can realize its manufacturing potential
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged access, Africa, aid, biotech, business, capital, Central Bank of Nigeria, communication, corporate governance, credit market, development, diversification, donor, economic growth, electronics, employment, exchange market, Industrial Develoment Organization, industrial revolution, industrialization, inflation, information, innovation, internal capacity, investable funds, investment, issue 4, local, machinery industries, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Manufactured Value Added, manufacturing potential, MDG, methodology, Millennium Development Goals, MVA, new agriculture, policy, political environment, resources, Sanusi, software, technology, TFP, total factor productivity, UN, UN Economic Commission for Africa, UNIDO, United Nations
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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