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 11 January, 2012
Governments, industry and businesses need to create more family friendly workplaces and workplace policies
Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged anti-discrimination laws and changes in policies of companies and businesses worldwide, better data and analysis, better salaries, childcare arrangements, complex problem, earning, éducation, flexible hours, gender issue, gender pay gap, higher education, improvements to existing legal frameworks, Industrial Development Organization, issue 8, Making It, negotiation, paid leave of absence for sickness and family care, parental leave, policy brief, power, reduce pay gap, Soroptimist International of the Americas, supporting working families, training women to ask for more pay, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, vocational training, women's empowerment, workplace, younger generation of women
By Making It on 2 December, 2011
Paul Polak believes corporations can will only remain competitive in the global marketplace by creating vibrant new markets that serve customers living on less than two US dollars a day
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum | Tagged Bangladesh, Cambodia, cheaper, Coca-Cola, competition, corporate interest, éducation, effective, efficient, Ethiopia, Europe, FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization, Gates Foundation, gender equality, health, human-powered irrigation, IDE, income-generating products, India, Industrial Development, innovation, International Development Enterprises, investion, issue 8, less than US$2, limitless electricity, Making It magazine, microsoft, Myanmar, Nepal, Paul Polak, power, profit, profitable business, safe drinking water, Spring Health, the future of corporations, treadle pump, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, United States, Viet Nam, Wal-Mart, women's issue, Zambia, Zimbabwe
By Making It on 22 August, 2011
Why network governance needs to be transparent, inclusive, and responsive, to deal with issues as diverse as food safety, public health and financial regulation
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged accountability, bailout package 2008, Brazil, Bretton Woods, China, commodity price volatility, conflict, cooperation, countries, crisis, depressional, development, Doha Round, efficiency, emerging economies, financial regulation, food safety, g20, G8, Global, global governance, Global Governance Group, globalization, governance, government, Group of 20, Ian Bremmer, imf, India, Industrial Development Organization, Industry for development, institutions, International, international monetary fund, international organizations, issue 7, legitimacy, macro-economic imbalances, Making It, management, multi-polar world, multilateral trade negotiations, network, Norway, Nouriel Roubini, pascal lamy, Peter Sutherland, policymaking, power, protectionism, public health, standards, trade, transparency, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, United States, world, World Bank, World Trade Organization, WTO
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
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 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 2 June, 2010
Copenhagen, Denmark: Having set a target of zero carbon emissions by 2025, the city could meet 50% of its heating needs by using its geothermal resources.
Larderello, Italy: Boasts the very first geothermal power plant, which opened at the beginning of the 20th century.
Reykjavik, Iceland: Abundant geothermal resources provide heat for approximately 87% of Iceland’s buildings.
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Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged Abu Dhabi, air-conditioning, Australia, Boise, business, China, cities, Copenhagen, Denmark, first, geothermal, heating, Iceland, Idaho, italy, Klamath Falls, Larderello, Madrid, Masdar City, natural resources, Nevada, Oregon, Perth, power, Public Works Department, renewable energy, Reno, resources, Reykjavik, schools, Spain, United States, worlds leading geothermal cities, Xianyang
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