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Coping with the crisis

By Making It on 2 December, 2011

Zoe Elena Horn examines the impact of the global economic crisis on women in the informal economy through her work on the Inclusive Cities study

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Africa, Asia, barring access to waste, chronic unemployment and underemployment, employment, financial literacy, financial services, focus groups, gender equality, global economic crisis, government, grim, harassment, home-based work, Inclusive Cities project, income earning opportunities, India, Industrial Development, informal enterprises, interviews, investment, issue 8, latin america, Making It magazine, minimum wage schemes, policymakers, policymaking, raids, research, self-employment, SEWA, skills training, social and economic protection, socially vulnerable, street trade, subsidize electricity, technology improvement, UN, unemployment, UNIDO, United Nations, unpaid care and domestic chores, vulnerability, waste collection, well-being, WIEGO, women, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing, women in the informal sector, world's poorest and most vulnerable workers, world's richest countries, Zoe Elena Horn

Hot topic: Does energy efficiency lead to increased energy consumption?

By Making It on 16 June, 2011

Experts from the Breakthrough Institute outline the importance and implications of the rebound effect

Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged agribusiness, agriculture, backfire, Breakthrough Institute, climate risk, consumption, cooling, cost, direct, emerging economies, emissions reduction, energy efficiency, energy saving, global climate, global emissions, globalization, goods, government, greenhouse gases, Harry Saunders, heating, hot topic, IEA, Industrial Development Organization, industrial processes, industry, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, international development agencies, international energy agency, IPCC, issue 6, Jesse Jenkins, Jevons' Paradox, linear, literature, macroeconomic, magazine, Making It, McKinsey, Michael Shellenberger, money, ngos, policies, private sector, productivity, products, rebound effects, research, review, services, stabilization, sustainable growth, Ted Nordhaus, transportation, UNIDO, United Nations, usage, world's emerging economies

The poverty footprint

By Making It on 28 March, 2011

Mary Arnesen, Business and Markets Project Manager at Oxfam GB, introduces a new way to help companies understand how their business affects the people where they operate

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged advocacy, agenda, alleviation, assess, awareness, business, business relations, civil society, climate change, community, company, consumers, countries, credit, crime, culture, developing countries, disaster risk reduction, distribution, éducation, empowerment, environment, equality, footprint, framework, gender, Gerry Boyle, health care, idea, identity, India, Indonesia, Industrial Development Organization, institution, issue 5, jobs, Kyle Cahill, livelihood, macro-economic, Making It, manufacturing, market, Mary Arnesen, media, methodologies, metrics, morals, multi-dimensional, natural disasters, outsourcing, Oxfam America, Oxfam GB, policies, poor people, poverty, Poverty Footprint, power, production, qualitative, quantitative, reduction, report, research, rights, rules, security, social impact, stability, stakeholder, strategy, trade, transparency, UNIDO, Unilever, United Nations, value chain, values, violence

Promoting industry’s innovation capacities

By Making It on 1 February, 2011

How making industrial processes energy- and water-efficient, resilient, and sustainable, is essential to meet the industrial objectives of tomorrow

Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged adaptation, Africa, AREED, Asia, Canadá, capacity, Centre for Electronic Governance, change, Chavuma, China, clean energy, competitiveness, design, development, dialogue, Egypt, energy, enterprise, Enterprise Europe Network, entrepreneur, EU, Europe, experience, finance, industrial, industry, information, innovation, institutional practices, International, International Fund for Animal Welfare, International Institute for Software Technology, knowledge, local banks, Lynn Mytelka, Maastricht Economic and Social Research and Training Centre, Macao SAR, microfinance, microsoft, network, organizational structure, process of learning, Republic of Korea, research, SMEs, sustainable, technology, the Netherlands, UK, UN Asia Pacific Center for ICT Development, UNDP, UNEP, United Nations, university, UNU Joint Activities Fund, UNU-IIST, UNU-MERIT, US, water-efficient, Zambia

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Hot topic: Does energy efficiency lead to increased energy consumption?

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