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By Making It on 31 October, 2012
Professor Klaus M. Leisinger, chair of the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development, explores some of the issues at the intersection between industry and health.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged access to medicines, Africa, Arogya Parivar, basic health rights, counterfeit medicines, CSR, generics, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, global health, intellectual property, Klaus M. Leisinger, LDCs, Making It, malaria, MDGs, Medicines for Malaria Venture, Millennium Development Goals, non-governmental organizations, Novartis, Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development, pharmaceutical industry, public health resources, research-based pharmaceutical corporations, sanitation, UN Global Compact, Working Group on Access to Essential Medicines, World Health Organization Essential Medicines List, World Health Report
By Making It on 3 September, 2012
Turkey’s Ambassador to the UN, Ertuğrul Apakan, considers the prospects for youth in the Least Developed Countries.
Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged chronic unemployment and underemployment, development, economic growth, global economic growth, International, international community, IPoA, Istanbul, jobs, ldc, LDC-IV, least developed countries, Least Developed Country, Millennium Development Goals, rio+20, Sustainable Development Goals, sustainable growth, Turkey, unemployment, United Nations, youth, youth employment
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 25 August, 2011
Thomas Pogge breaks down narratives about our efforts to fight world poverty and exposes a series of broken promises and rigged initiatives
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged aflluent countries, anti-dumping, banks, Branko Milanovic, China, climate change, corruption, developing countries, development assistance, DRC, economic growth, economic system, economy, efficiency, embezzlement, employment, endemic malaria, extreme poverty, extreme weather, feudal system, Food and Agriculture Organization, free market, GFI, global economic growth, Global Financial Integrity, global warming, governing a globalized world, government, green, health, hunger, impoverishment, Indonesia, institutional design, institutional reform, issue 7, Kofi Annan, lenders, Making It magazine, MDGs, media, Millennium Declaration, Millennium Development Goals, natural resources, Nigeria, oppression, politics, pollution, poor, population, post-MDG era, premature deaths, private foreign aid, public foreign aid, rising sea levels, Rome Declaration, statistics, sustainability, sustainable, Thomas Pogge, trade, UN, UN FAO, undernutrition, UNIDO, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, United States, weapons, World Bank, World Food Security, world poverty, Yale University
By Making It on 10 August, 2011
Defining governance challenges in the era of globalization, and outlining some policy implications resulting from the revelation that most of the world’s poor live in middle-income countries
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged accountability, adaptation, agribusiness, aid instruments, Andy Sumner, Angola, Cameroon, China, climate change, community, demography, development assistance, development policy, economic growth, éducation, financial responsibility, Global, global warming, globalization, governance, government, healthcare, humanitarian situations, income, India, Indonesia, Industrial Development, inequality, insecurity, Institute of Development Studies, International, issue 6, issue 7, knowledge, LICs, low-income countries, magazine, Making It, MDG, MICs, middle-income countries, migration, Millennium Declaration, Millennium Development Goals, new bottom billion, Nigeria, official development assistance, Pakistan, policy, policymakers, poor, population, poverty, poverty reduction, R2P, relative poverty, resources, responsibility to protect, rich, security, strategy, Sub-Saharan Africa, Sudan, tax, trade, transitioning, understanding, UNICEF, UNIDO, United Nations, urbanization, wealth, World Bank, World Development Indicators
By Making It on 8 July, 2011
Kenneth Marsh points out how better packaging can help add value and preserve food and pharmaceuticals in developing countries
Posted in Policy Brief | Tagged agribusiness, agricultural production, business, company, consultant, cultural factors, developed countries, developing countries, distribution, Economic Development, FAO, farm, food, Global, globalization, grain, hunger, innovation, issue 6, Kenneth Marsh, law, legal, legality, loss, machinery, Making It, market, material, MDGs, Millennium Development Goals, multinational companies, packaging, pharmaceutical, plastic, poor storage, private sector, production rate, public sector, shipping, Sri Lanka, sustainability, sustainable production, technology, transport, transportation, UN, UN Food and Agricultural Organization, UNIDO, United Nations, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, United States, US, value, value-added packaged food
By Making It on 7 April, 2011
Lucy Muchoki, CEO of the Pan African Agribusiness and Agro-Industry Consortium, tells Making It about agribusiness challenges in Africa, and how the future could look.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Africa, agribusiness, agriculture, Angola, CEO, China, commodity, countries, credit, economic output, éducation, efficiency, empowerment, EU, European Union, export, farming, finance, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, food storage, foreign markets, future, GDP, global partnership, globalization, government, growth, import, independence, Industrial Development, infrastructure, investment, IT, jobs, labour, liberalization, Lucy Muchoki, MDGs, methodologies, Millennium Development Goals, Mozambique, opportunity, Pan African Agribusiness and Agro-Industry Consortium, PanAAC, poverty, price, private sector, rural population, science, small-scale, SME, sourcing, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tanzania, tax, traceability, UNIDO, United Nations, United States, urban, US, water sustainability, women, young people, youth
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
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