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
By Making It on 3 September, 2010
Conventional approaches failed to deliver rapid growth and economic stability. Jomo Kwame Sundaram believes that governments need to play a developmental role.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Asia, China, definition, developmental policies, discourse, East Asia, economic crisis, economic liberalization, food prices, global finance, government role, hunger, industrialization, Issue 3, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, poverty, proactive role, project syndicate, rethinking poverty, social protection, social summit, starvation, Sub-Saharan Africa, UN, unemployment, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, value-added agriculture and services, world social situation 2010
By Making It on 1 September, 2010
To spur economic growth, development, and jobs, CEO Deborah Wince-Smith of the US Council on Competitiveness, believes the world needs dynamic strategic partnerships
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged capital, development, digital revolution, Economic Development, economic growth, emerging economies, GFCC, Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils, Hewlett-Packard, international trade, Issue 3, jobs, John Young, labour force, national competitiveness, technology, trade, United States, US Council on Competitiveness, Wince-Smith
By Making It on 11 August, 2010
A new report opens a window on to the economic landscape that women face globally, and highlights where most opportunities can be found
Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged Africa, Asia, attitudes, Belgium, Brazil, Canadá, chile, China, constraint, country, economic landscape, Economist Intelligence Unit, Egypt, environment, fertility, Global, government, Hong Kong SAR, indicators, innovation, Isreal, Issue 3, Japan, labour force, Leila Butt, liberal, limited, magazine, Making It, Mauritius, Mexico, Namibia, Norway, opportunities, pilot, progress, ranking, Republic of Korea, retirement, rights, Singapore, slow-growing, social value, South Africa, stagnant, Sweden, Tunisia, US, weak, women economic opportunity index
By Making It on 6 August, 2010
There is growing recognition that the potential contribution of the private sector to development far outstrips the potential impact of aid.
Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged Africa, banking sector, climate, climate change, developing countries, development, Fair Trade, Issue 3, microenterprises, microfinance, Millennium Development Goals, offset, Overseas Development Institute, poverty reduction, private sector, social responsibility, Washington Consensus
By Making It on 5 August, 2010
The founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, Jacqueline Novogratz, uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty
Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged Acumen Fund, D.Light Design, drinking water, East Africa, energy, Global Easy Water Products, global poverty, India, international development, International Development Enterprises – India, investment, Issue 3, Jacqueline Novogratz, malaria, malnutrition, Pakistan
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 5 August, 2010
Country feature on China with an exclusive interview with His Excellency Chen Deming, Minister of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged agriculture, carbon emissions, Chen Deming, China, crisis, economic boom, economic growth, energy, export, financial market, globalization, investment, Issue 3, manufacturing sector, Minister of Commerce, renewable energy
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
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