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Financing Africa’s post-2015 development transformation

Financing Africa’s post-2015 development transformation

19 September 2014

Charles Abugre Akelyira outlines a new form of global partnership in which Africans can drive the post-2015 development agenda

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged African Union, Charles Abugre Akelyira, Common African Position (CAP), economic transformation, environmental sustainability, finance, governance, illicit financial flows, inclusive growth, inequalities, innovation, international partnerships, Millennium Development Goals, Post-2015 Development Agenda, Programme of Infrastructure Development in Africa, resources

Ban backs industry to deliver

Ban backs industry to deliver

23 July 2014

“The post-2015 development agenda won’t be achieved without a close partnership with the industries that promote growth and jobs”- Ban Ki-moon

Posted in All Posts, Global Forum | Tagged Ban Ki-moon, cleaner production, environmental sustainability, inclusive and sustainable industrial development, Lima Declaration, partnership with the industries, Post-2015 Development Agenda, resource efficiency, UNIDO General Conference, United Nations

A development classification in a non-linear (developing) world

A development classification in a non-linear (developing) world

10 November 2013

Andy Sumner and Sergio Tezanos Vázquez on building a more nuanced classification of developing countries.

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Andy Sumner, classification system, cluster analysis, democratic participation, Dudley Seers, emerging economies, environmental sustainability, HDI, human development, income per capita, low and middle-income countries, poverty rates, Sergio Tezanos Vázquez, structural transformation, UNDP, World Bank

Reasons to be both hugely disappointed and very excited

Reasons to be both hugely disappointed and very excited

27 August 2012

Paul Hohnen on ‘greenwash’, sustainable development, and what governments and the UN need to do to save the planet.

Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged business, China, climate change, energy, energy efficiency, environment, environmental sustainability, free market, Global Reporting Initiative, green economy, green energy, green industry, green innovation, green technology, greenhouse gas, greenwash, Industrial Development, international agreement, Making It magazine, multinational companies, natural resources, oil, Paul Hohnen, pollution, resources, rio+20, solar power, sustainability, sustainable, sustainable business practices, sustainable development, sustainable economic growth, sustainable energy, Sustainable Energy for All, sustainable future, sustainable growth, sustainable production, Sustainablity strategies, technology, UN Private Sector Focal Points, UNIDO, United Nations, wind energy, wind power

Gender-sensitive industrial development

Gender-sensitive industrial development

10 January 2012

Investing in gender-sensitive development affects productivity, efficiency and sustained economic growth, as well as strengthens women’s rights

Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged Africa, business management, cosmetics, economic potential of women, education systems, enhancing competitiveness, entrepreneurial activities, entrepreneurship, environmental sustainability, finance, gender issue, Gender Mainstreaming Steering Committee, gender-sensitive employment creation, inclusive globalization, industrial development for poverty reduction, Industrial Development Organization, institutionalize, internationalization, investment in care services, issue 8, local raw materials, Making It magazine, Mali, market-information, modernity, Morocco, off-grid energy sources, policy advice, producing shea products, product certification and marketing, productive resources, skills, strengthening business support services, sustainable energy, technical cooperation programmes, technology, uganda, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, women's empowerment