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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 18 November, 2011
A country feature on South Africa, with an exclusive interview with International Relations and Cooperation Minister, Maite Knoana-Mishabane
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged 2010 World Cup, Africa's superpower, agents of change, BASIC Group, BRIC, business, carbon capture and storage technology, carbon emissions, coal, competition, COP17/CMP7, country feature, decline in poverty, development, Dipuo Peters, Durban, empowering and educating women, Energy Minister, entrepreneurship, environmental authorities, exclusive interview, Finance Minister, gender, global market economy, globalization, green industry, health problems, HIV/AIDS, how to be resourceful with limited resources, human systems, income and wealth, Industrial Development Organization, industrializing countries, infrastructure, innovation, interconnectedness, International Relations and Cooperation Minister, inventions, issue 8, Jacob Zuma, labour costs, labour productivity, limited access to economic opportunities, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, Making It, manufacturing, MDGs, Millennium Development Goals, minerals, New Growth Path, OECD, planet, population, poverty alleviation, Pravin Gordhan, prices and costs, resource depletion, resources, social grant system, South Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, trade, UNFCCC, UNIDO, United Nations, Vienna Energy Forum, water and sanitation, what to do to save the environment, women's education, working-age population
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 13 September, 2011
For centuries, Afghanistan has been a leader in carpet production, but years of political instability have damaged the industry. Charles Arthur traces the Afghan carpet’s journey from point of production to point of sale
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged access to education, Afghan soil, Afghan women weavers, Afghanistan, Arzu Studio Hope, carpet production, carpet retail business in Vienna, Charles Arthur, Connie Duckworth, cycle of poverty, Dari, dealers, difficult to import carpets, Dubai, economic activity, economic growth, Europe, free-standing looms, George Vartian, global investment banking firm, global recession, Goldman Sachs, healthcare, Herat, high-quality carpet, human rights, Industrial Development, innovative model of social entrepreneurship, instability, international community, issue 5, Karachi, lack of investment, landlocked, legal export, local, long-term investment, Making It, manufacturing, mountainous country, Nangarhar province, network of weavers, newly established international sales hub in Istanbul, North America, northern Afghanistan, northern provinces, Pakistan, Pakistani exporters, Peshawar, rural, Russian buyers, significant growth and export potential, small-scale, sourcing and selling, steady income, Taliban regime, trade, transportation challenges, Tremayne, Turkey, UNIDO, US Afghan Women's Council, US Agency for International Development, US consulting company, US Departments of the Interior and Defence, USAID, value-added, violence, warfare, wholesalers, women
By Making It on 30 June, 2011
Country feature on Ethiopia, including Prime Minister Meles Zenawi speaking about his vision for sustainable development
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Africa, African Union, agribusiness, aid, bio-fuels, carbon emissions, China, Christianity, clean, Conference of Ministers of Economy and Finance, conflict, construction, country feature, degradation, dependency, developing country, development, developmental aid, developmental state, economy, energy, environment, Ethiopia, famine, finance, food crisis, g20, geo-thermal, Global, globalization, government, green, growth, helter-skelter, human rights, hunger, hydropower, impoverished, independence, Industrial Development Organization, infrastructure, institutional growth, international loans, investment, Islam, issue 6, liberalization, local, Making It magazine, manufacturing, Meles Zenawi, modern, neo-liberal paradigm, Oromia, Peter Gill, policy, poverty, power, Prime Minister, private sector, public investment, re-forestation, renewable resources, resources, roads, social sector, sugar production, sustainable future, transport, UN, UNIDO, United Nations