By Making It on 15 February, 2011
Taking a closer look at the rising issues surrounding biodiversity and sustainable industrial development
Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged Applied Population Biology, biodiversity, biology, carbon, cities, clean water, climate change, danger, earth, energy, food, fresh air, future, green space, habitat loss, Imperial College, issue 4, life, London, medicine, natural processes, overexploitation, policy, pollination, pollution, population, poverty, preserving ecosystem, purifying, Sir John Beddington, species, sustainability, UK, water
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 29 November, 2010
By developing productive capacities, LDCs can rely increasingly on domestic resources to finance their economic growth, and attract capital inflows that support them
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged added value, agribusiness, agriculture, aid, Brussels Programme of Action, capital, Cheick Sidi Diarra, commodity prices, Conference on Trade and Development, credit, deveopment, emerging markets, employment, energy, export, GDP growth, geographic disadvantages, global economic crisis, governance, import, incentives, Industrial Development, infrastructure, international markets, investment, issue 4, ldc, least developed countries, MDG, Millennium Development Goals, modernization, multilateral support, poverty reduction, productive capacity, resource gap, revenues, saving, sustainability, systems, technology, transport, UN, UNCTAD, United Nations, US
By Making It on 12 November, 2010
Country feature on Kiribati with an interview with His Excellency Anote Tong, President of Kiribati
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged 2010, aid, Anote Tong, Aranteiti Tekiau, Asian Development Bank, biodiversity, coconut, coral, economic vulnerability, export, fishing, GDP, Gilbert Islands, global warming, health, instability, issue 4, Kiribati, ldc, least developed countries, Line Islands, management, marine ecosystems, marine resource development, ministry of fisheries, ocean, pacific, Pheonix Islands, PIPA, President of Kiribati, production, Ribwanataake Awira, sea, sea levels, seaweed, Tarawa, temperature, territory, tourism, UN general assembly, unesco, World Bank
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 11 November, 2010
Wim Naudé warns that entrepreneurship policies can be fraught with potential pitfalls
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged Brazil, business, China, commodity prices, developing countries, development, Doing Business report, economic growth, employment, entrepreneurship, FDI, financial crisis, government, income, India, infrastructure, institutions, investment, issue 4, labour, lobbying, market, micro and small enterprises, MSE, Nathan Leff, policy, poverty, productivity, state-owned, tax rates, technology, the Economist, United Nations University, UNU-WIDER, USA, William Lazonick, Wim Naudé, World Bank, World Institute for Development Economics Research
By Making It on 11 November, 2010
Ranil Dissanayake was trained as an economist and historian. He now specializes in aid effectiveness, and can also be found blogging at AidThoughts
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged Africa, aid, aidthoughts, Asia, bureaucracy, capital, capitalism, Chris Bayly, clean development, commercial farming, Dar es Salaam, development, Doing Business report, economy, entrepreneurship, financing development, geography, Haiti, Hernando De Soto, history, incentives, issue 4, labour, Marx, policy, politics, potential, power, pre-colonial, property, returns, security, stability, system, the Birth of the Modern World, The Mystery of Capital, third world, trade, World Bank
By Making It on 11 November, 2010
The theme of this – the fourth – issue of Making It: Industry for Development is the challenge facing the world’s 49 Least Developed Countries (LDCs), and in particular the importance of strengthening productive capacity.
Posted in The Magazine | Tagged Cheick Sidi Diarra, entrepreneurial capacities, governance, Industrial Development, issue 4, ldc, least developed countries, production linkages, productive resources, prosperity, UN High Representative for LDCs, UNIDO, United Nations
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