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An Afghan carpet ride

By Making It on 13 September, 2011

For centuries, Afghanistan has been a leader in carpet production, but years of political instability have damaged the industry. Charles Arthur traces the Afghan carpet’s journey from point of production to point of sale

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged access to education, Afghan soil, Afghan women weavers, Afghanistan, Arzu Studio Hope, carpet production, carpet retail business in Vienna, Charles Arthur, Connie Duckworth, cycle of poverty, Dari, dealers, difficult to import carpets, Dubai, economic activity, economic growth, Europe, free-standing looms, George Vartian, global investment banking firm, global recession, Goldman Sachs, healthcare, Herat, high-quality carpet, human rights, Industrial Development, innovative model of social entrepreneurship, instability, international community, issue 5, Karachi, lack of investment, landlocked, legal export, local, long-term investment, Making It, manufacturing, mountainous country, Nangarhar province, network of weavers, newly established international sales hub in Istanbul, North America, northern Afghanistan, northern provinces, Pakistan, Pakistani exporters, Peshawar, rural, Russian buyers, significant growth and export potential, small-scale, sourcing and selling, steady income, Taliban regime, trade, transportation challenges, Tremayne, Turkey, UNIDO, US Afghan Women's Council, US Agency for International Development, US consulting company, US Departments of the Interior and Defence, USAID, value-added, violence, warfare, wholesalers, women

An Arab Spring for women?

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

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

From aid dependence to resource revenue

By Making It on 17 March, 2011

A country feature on Timor-Leste, with an exclusive interview with His Excellency President José Ramos-Horta

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged agriculture, aid dependence, Asia, capital, cashew nuts, clothing, cocoa, coffee, commodity, Conference, country feature, development, economic, Economist Intelligence Unit, ecotourism, éducation, EITI, eiu, environment, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, fund, furniture, future, government institutions, health care, human resources, income, independence, infrastructure, institutions, International, interview, investment, issue 5, José Ramos-Horta, ldc, LDC-IV, Least Developed Country, Making It, manufacturing, marketing, MDG, militia groups, Millennium Development Goals, nature, peacekeepers, petroleum, population, poverty, president, productive capacity, recovery, resource-derived wealth, revenue, security, social, subsistence, sustainable, Timor-Leste, trade, transport, UN, United Nations, vanilla, violence

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