By Making It on 5 December, 2011
Richard Heinberg and Matthew Lockwood debate the “end of growth”, and what lies at the foundation of a post-carbon, green economy
Posted in All Posts, Hot Topic | Tagged Adapting to Our New Economic Reality, c02, carbon emissions, climate change, constant growth, de-carbonized economy, debt, developed countries, developing countries, division of labour, economic crisis, economic expansion, economic growth is effectively over, economists, emissions reductions, environmental damage, executives, gender equality, gender issue, global economy, government cover-up, grandchildren's future, green growth, Industrial Development, industrial revolution, infrastructure, innovation, investment, irreversible climate change effects, issue 8, limited national resources, low-carbon technologies, Making It magazine, Matthew Lockwood, no recovery, politics, Post Carbon Institute, Richard Heinberg, sustainability, the economy is recovering, the end of growth, transition away from fossil fuels, UK's Institute of Development Studies, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, women, world warming
By Making It on 11 September, 2011
A country feature on the possibility of Bangladesh’s graduation from LDC status, and exclusive interview with the Minister of Industries
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged agriculture, Bangladesh, Bangladeshi Minister of Industries, capitalism, collective, competition, country features, Debapriya Bhattacharya, democratic deliberation, development, Dilip Barua, economic arrangements, emerging market economy, gender equality, Global, global commons, global ecosystem, globalization, governance, graduations from LDC status, green industry, growth, imbalance, individualism, Industrial Development, inequality, institutions, International, interview, issue 7, ldc, Least Developed Country, macroeconomic, Making It, market, MDGs, nation state, opportunities, policy, political economy, politics, productivity, regulation, stabilization, subsidies, sustainability, technology transfer, trade, UN, UNIDO, United Nations
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 24 August, 2011
Hedda Oehlberger-Femundsenden argues that UNIDO’s Green Industry initiative can build on the successes of globalization, while helping to rectify its shortcomings
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged agriculture, Brazil, Brundtland Commission, capitalism, China, climate change, collective, competition, conflict, democratic deliberation, development, economic arrangements, economic crisis, emerging market economy, energy, environment, financial, fuel, g20, germany, Global, global commons, global ecosystem, global warming, globalization, governance, green industry, greenhouse gas emission, growth, Hedda Oehlberger-Femundsenden, imbalance, India, individualism, Industrial Development, industry, inequality, institutions, International, issue 7, Japan, legitimacy, macroeconomic, Making It, Malaysia, market, nation state, opportunities, paradox, policy, political economy, politics, pollution, poverty, productivity, regulation, Republic of Korea, resources, rio+20, Singapore, social cohesion, sovereignty, stabilization, subsidies, sustainability, technology transfer, trade, trade capacity building, UN, UN Commission on Sustainable Development, UNCSD 2012, UNEP, UNIDO, United Nations, United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Millennium Summit, unrest, World Commission on Environment and Development, world economy
By Making It on 24 August, 2011
Dani Rodrik argues that the paradox of globalization is that it works best when it is not pushed too far, and discusses how to avoid further global crises
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged agriculture, Brazil, capitalism, China, collective, comparative advantage, currency appreciation, Dani Rodrik, democratic deliberation, development, doha, economic arrangements, emerging market economy, EU, European Union, finance, financial, g20, Global, global commons, global ecosystem, global lender, globalization, governance, Harvard, imbalance, imf, India, individualism, Industrial Development, institutions, International, international monetary fund, issue 7, jurisdictional boundaries, labour mobility, legitimacy, macroeconomic, Making It, market, market-based, mercantilist policies, nation state, paradox, policies, political economy, politics, regulation, Renminbi, russia, safeguards, semi-private goods, social protection mechanism, South Africa, sovereignty, stabilization, subsidies, sustainability, trade, trade barriers, Turkey, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, United States, USA, world economy, World Trade Organization, WTO
By Making It on 6 July, 2011
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter, pushes for more innovative designs for the global food system
Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged Africa, agribusiness, agriculture, agro-ecology, architect, build, climate change, co2, commodities, crisis, deforestation, design, developing countries, distaster, domestic supply, donor contributions, Egypt, export, farmers, feed, fight, food crises, food security, foreign producers, France, future, g20, global food system, government, greenhouse gas emissions, health care, human rights, humanitarian supplies, hunger, import, Industrial Development, infrastructure, innovation, insecurity, International, investment, living wage, Making It magazine, market, Mozambique, Olivier De Schutter, organizations, peak prices, politics, population growth, poverty, prices, producers, protection, reinsurance mechanism, remedy, reserves, Robert Zoellick, root causes, safety, safety nets, shock, social-protection programmes, solution, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, srfood.org, stable revenue, Sub-Saharan Africa, sustainability, symptoms, technology, trade, trend, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, value chains, World Bank
By Making It on 23 June, 2011
Lina Abou-Habib asks if revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa can be a vehicle for the economic empowerment of women, or whether patriarchy will prevail
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum | Tagged accountability, agribusiness, agriculture, Arab Spring, Ben Ali, change, Collective for Research and Training on Development-Action, CRTDA, developing countries, dictator, discrimination, economy, Egypt, equality, feminism, gender, gender equality, impunity, Industrial Development Organization, Iran, issue 6, labour, leadership, liberation, Lina Abou-Habib, Making It magazine, market, MENA, Middle East, North Africa, patriarchy, policy, politics, post-revolution era, power, prejudice, public sphere, religion, revolution, social institutions, society, Tahrir Square, transformation, Tunisia, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, violence, women, Yemen
By Making It on 23 February, 2011
Simon Maxwell on how to avoid the downsides of climate change – and how to capture the possible upsides too!
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum | Tagged adaptation, agriculture, Australia, batteries, Bolivia, business, capitalism, carbon emission, CDKN, challenge, Climate and Development Knowledge Network, climate change, climate compatible development, co2, coal, comparative advantage, Connie Hedegaard, development, dialogue, disruptive, energy, energy-intensive industries, epic scale, European Union's Climate Change Commissioner, experience, extreme weather, flood, future, global economy, globalization, government, heating, hydro, Indonesia, Industrial Development Organization, industrial policy, industrialists, infrastructure, innovation, International, investment, issue 5, lesson, lithium, livelihood, lobbies, long-term development, Making It, Maldives, market, mitigation, Napoleon, oil, Pakistan, policymakers, politics, post-petroleum age, poverty, product development, renewables, reserves, resources, restructuring, risk, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Schumpeter, short-term, Simon Maxwell, social impacts, societies, technology, temperature rise, trade, UNIDO, United Kingdom, United Nations, vietnam, warning, wind, wolar
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