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 16 June, 2011
Energy efficiency leads to increased productivity and economic output, reduced demand, reduced energy bills and an enhanced security of energy supply
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged agribusiness, Asia, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Asian, behavior, California, challenges, clean, climate change, co2, complex, consciousness, decarbonization, developing countries, economic growth, effectiveness, emerging markets, employment, Energy Emergence: Rebound and Backfire as Emergent Phenomena, energy supply, environment, Europe, European, fossil fuel, GDP, Ghana, global partnership, globalization, Industrial Development Organization, industry, issue 6, Japan, jurisdiction, Making It magazine, Marianne Moscoso-Osterkorn, measures, Philippines, planet, policy, policymakers, rebound effect, REEEP, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership, technology, Thailand, The Breakthrough Institute, theory, UNIDO, United Nations, United States of America, US, USA
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 22 February, 2011
Trade is a vital engine of economic growth, but a multilateral framework for trade agreements is essential if all countries are to share the benefits
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged 1930s, 1990s, 2010, 2011, adam smith, agreements, Canadá, capital flows, China, currency, deficit, developing countries, division of labor, Doha Round, domestic, economic nationalism, economies of scale, engine of economic growth, Ernest Zedillo, euro-zone, exchange rate levels, export, financial turmoil, former President of Mexico, friction, g20, globalization, Goldman Sachs International, imbalance, imf, import tariffs, Industrial Development, International, international monetary fund, investment, issue 5, Jagdish Ghagwati, jobs, leaders, liberal, liberalization, magazine, Making It, manufacturing, mercantilism, multilateral framework, mutual economic dependence, organization, pascal lamy, Peter Sutherland, post-war, prosperity, protectionism, recovery, scope, South Korea, surplus, technology, trade, UK, unemployment, UNIDO, UNIDO Goodwill Ambassador, United Nations, US, wealth of nations, world trade, World Trade Organization, world war II, WTO, WWII
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
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 11 August, 2010
A new report opens a window on to the economic landscape that women face globally, and highlights where most opportunities can be found
Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged Africa, Asia, attitudes, Belgium, Brazil, Canadá, chile, China, constraint, country, economic landscape, Economist Intelligence Unit, Egypt, environment, fertility, Global, government, Hong Kong SAR, indicators, innovation, Isreal, Issue 3, Japan, labour force, Leila Butt, liberal, limited, magazine, Making It, Mauritius, Mexico, Namibia, Norway, opportunities, pilot, progress, ranking, Republic of Korea, retirement, rights, Singapore, slow-growing, social value, South Africa, stagnant, Sweden, Tunisia, US, weak, women economic opportunity index
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