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By Making It on 13 February, 2012
Solar visionary Jigar Shah sees small solutions to big problems for accessing energy and expanding mobile communications in developing countries
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged access to energy, Barclays Bank, Beltsville, business solution, Carbon War Room, climate change, destruction, earth, electricity, energy efficiency, entrepreneurship, explosive growth trajectory of mobile communications, financial returns, global crisis, global warming, Green Power for Mobile: Charging Choices, GSMA Development Fund, Industrial Development Organization, Industry for development, issue 9, Jigar Shah, Lockheed Martin, Making It magazine, Maryland, mobile phone industry, multi-billion dollar opportunity, our low-carbon future, poverty reduction, power, Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE), renewable energy improvements, small solutions to big problems, statistics, SunEdison, sustainable economic growth, third industrial revolution, UNIDO, United Nations, USA, wealth creation, world
By Making It on 30 November, 2011
Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN Women, explains how to advance the aim of gender equality, and what obstacles prevent women from accessing greater economic opportunities
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Africa, Asia, credit, dependency, development, economic empowerment of women, economic opportunities, employment and entrepreneurial activities, FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization, gender equality, gender gaps, gender issue, globalization, goods and services, government, Hilary Clinton, human rights, ILO, International Labour Organization, livelihoods, macroeconomic policies, Making It magazine, McKinsey, Michelle Bachelet, policymaking, poverty, poverty reduction, prevent women, private sector development, rio+20, social and labour market obstacles, social challenges, structural inequalities, UN Global Compact, UN Women, UNIDO, United Nations, United States, World Ecnomic Forum
By Making It on 14 September, 2011
Katherine Lucey introduces a social enterprise that provides women with training and support to create solar micro-businesses
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged aid, air quality, Avon-style business, clean energy, distribution of clean energy, economic opportunity, empowerment, energy, energy poverty, energy technology, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, family income, global climate change, hazardous, household, Industrial Development, inefficient, innovative market-based approach, insufficient, issue 7, Katherine Lucey, kerosene lanterns, LED lighting technology, light, Making It, micro-consignment business model, Mpigi, population, poverty reduction, rural women in Africa, social enterprise, solar micro-business, Solar Sister, solar technology, training and support, uganda, UN, UNIDO, women, women's social networks
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 15 June, 2011
Patrick Kormawa argues that a shift to an agribusiness development growth trajectory is crucial for poverty reduction
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged 2011, Abuja, Africa, agribusiness, agriculture, agro-processing, capital, clean, dependency, development, East Asia, economic growth strategies, efficient, energy, exploiting, financing, food security, GDP, Global, globalization, green, green revolution, growth, human resource, Industrial Development Organization, industrialization, infrastructure, innovation, institution, intervention, issue 6, labour-intensive, land, Latin America and the Caribbean, low-carbon, Making It magazine, modernity, nation, Nigeria, Patrick Kormawa, policy, policymaker, poverty reduction, private enterprise, prosperity, public, Recycling, renewable, services, social stability, Sough Asia, South Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, sustainability, sustainable intensification, systems, technology, Thailand, The Future of Food and Farming, transparency, UNIDO, United Nations, urbanization, value addition, World Bank, youth employment, Zimbabwe
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 23 November, 2010
The WBCSD sees a flourishing partnership for economic growth and environmental well-being
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged aid, commerce, corruption, developing countries, distribution, economic growth, environmental well-being, Filippo Veglio, globalization, government, income, jobs, Making It magazine, Marcel Engel, marketing, markets, policy, population, poverty, poverty reduction, private sector, production, prosperity, public sector, SMEs, telecommunications, trade, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, WBCSD, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
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
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