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18 February 2016
Interview with Yassine Brahim, Tunisia’s Minister of Development, Investment and International Cooperation
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged country feature, economy, interview, minister, Rosa Álvarez Fernández, social reforms, Tunisia, YASSINE BRAHIM
14 February 2016
Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab Spring, is on its way to becoming the first genuine democracy in the Middle East and North Africa region.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged country feature, democracy, economic growth rate, Economic reforms, labour market, Middle East and North Africa region, Rosa Álvarez Fernández, Tunisia, unemployment
8 March 2012
The front cover of the “We can do it!” issue of Making It has been the subject of many appreciative comments but also quite a few asking about the origins of the image. Here is a brief explanation.
Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged 1943, 4th quarter 2011, Carolina Guerra, Cartier Women's Initiative Awards, Charles Arthur, climate change, climate treaty, Colombia, country feature, eco-entrepreneur, economic growth, empowering and educating women, empowerment, empowerment of women, end of growth, Europe, European Union, feminism, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, girls, Global Green Growth Forum, green growth, ICHET, ICRW, illustration, Industrial Development, interview, Ireland, issue 8, Jan O'Sullivan, Janez Potocnik, Lauren Brassaw, Lebanon, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, Making It, Mali, Matthew Lockwood, Maya Zankoul, Michelle Bachelet, Norman Rockwell, Omar Traboulsi, Paul Polak, renewable energy, Richard Heinberg, Rosie the Riveter, Saturday Evening Post, Soroptomist, South Africa, sustainability, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, UN Women, UNIDO, We can do it, WIEGO, women, women entrepreneurs, Zoe Elena Horn
23 November 2011
‘Women hold up half the sky’ is a Chinese proverb affirming women’s equal contribution to the human experience but it is an aspirational, rather than a factual, claim. In developed and developing countries alike, gender gaps persist in education, health, work, wages and political participation. For this issue of Making It, the theme is gender […]
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18 November 2011
A country feature on South Africa, with an exclusive interview with International Relations and Cooperation Minister, Maite Knoana-Mishabane
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged 2010 World Cup, Africa's superpower, agents of change, BASIC Group, BRIC, business, carbon capture and storage technology, carbon emissions, coal, competition, COP17/CMP7, country feature, decline in poverty, development, Dipuo Peters, Durban, empowering and educating women, Energy Minister, entrepreneurship, environmental authorities, exclusive interview, Finance Minister, gender, global market economy, globalization, green industry, health problems, HIV/AIDS, how to be resourceful with limited resources, human systems, income and wealth, Industrial Development Organization, industrializing countries, infrastructure, innovation, interconnectedness, International Relations and Cooperation Minister, inventions, issue 8, Jacob Zuma, labour costs, labour productivity, limited access to economic opportunities, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, Making It, manufacturing, MDGs, Millennium Development Goals, minerals, New Growth Path, OECD, planet, population, poverty alleviation, Pravin Gordhan, prices and costs, resource depletion, resources, social grant system, South Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, trade, UNFCCC, UNIDO, United Nations, Vienna Energy Forum, water and sanitation, what to do to save the environment, women's education, working-age population
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
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