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11 November 2010
Ranil Dissanayake was trained as an economist and historian. He now specializes in aid effectiveness, and can also be found blogging at AidThoughts
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged Africa, aid, aidthoughts, Asia, bureaucracy, capital, capitalism, Chris Bayly, clean development, commercial farming, Dar es Salaam, development, Doing Business report, economy, entrepreneurship, financing development, geography, Haiti, Hernando De Soto, history, incentives, issue 4, labour, Marx, policy, politics, potential, power, pre-colonial, property, returns, security, stability, system, the Birth of the Modern World, The Mystery of Capital, third world, trade, World Bank
31 March 2010
Developing countries are witnessing a substantial growth in their greenhouse gas emissions, mostly due to rapid industrialization …
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged clean development, development, entrepreneurship, financing development, Issue 2, policy, renewable energy
30 March 2010
Solar power has a unique opportunity in undeveloped and developing regions, particularly those with over-burdened and/or limited electricity grids.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged clean development, development, entrepreneurship, financing development, Issue 2, policy, renewable energy, solar, solar nations, solar power
30 March 2010
Key to Grameen Shakti’s success was the deliberate drive to involve women in the take-up of renewable energy …
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Bangladesh, Barua, development, entrepreneurship, financing development, Grameen Shakti, Issue 2, policy, renewable energy, solar, solar nations, solar power
30 March 2010
Helge Lund, President and CEO of Statoil, illustrates the growing importance of new carbon capture and storage technologies.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged carbon, carbon capture, CCS, change, climate, co2, development, emissions, energy, European Carbon Dioxide Test Centre at Mongstad, financing development, Helge Lund, industry, international energy agency, Issue 2, policy, Statoil, storage
30 March 2010
The private sector is a major driver of economic growth, and a thriving business environment is a pre-condition for the development of a dynamic private sector …
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Austria, Austrian Development Bank, Bhutan, climate change, development, ECOWAS, energy efficiency, financing development, hydropower, interview, Issue 2, Macedonia, policy, renewable energy, Spindelegger, UNDP, UNIDO, Vienna
29 March 2010
Nobuo Tanaka looks at the technologies for reducing industrial CO2 emissions and the policies that are needed to ensure their widespread use.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged clean development, co2, development, entrepreneurship, financing development, industrial emissions, industrial revolution, industry, international energy agency, Issue 2, policy, renewable energy, technology, transition
26 March 2010
Extracted from Private financing of renewable energy – a guide for policymakers written by Sophie Justice, and published jointly by the Renewable Energy Finance Project, Chatham House; Bloomberg New Energy Finance; and the UNEP Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative. *** A broad range of financial institutions are now investing in or lending money to the renewable […]
Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged development, financing development, Issue 2, policy, renewable energy