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Change the mindset

Change the mindset

23 April 2018

Kate Raworth argues that we should stop looking back and be more ambitious in our economic goals

Posted in All Posts, Global Forum | Tagged Doughnut economics, economists, GDP, Kate Raworth, neo-liberal, regenerative by design, The commons

A post-GDP world

A post-GDP world

1 September 2015

Lorenzo Fioramonti on why it’s time to end the tyranny of Gross Domestic Product

Posted in All Posts, Global Forum | Tagged GDP, Gross Domestic Product, Lorenzo Fioramonti, SDG, SDGs, superpower, Sustainable Development Goals

How the world's economic growth is actually uneconomic

How the world’s economic growth is actually uneconomic

16 December 2014

“GDP has grown but since 1980 human welfare per capita has not improved.”

Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged g20, GDP, Genuine Progress Indicator, GPI, growth, inequality, Robert Costanza, Sustainable Development Goals, well-being

Is degrowth the answer? Interview with Erik Assadourian

Is degrowth the answer? Interview with Erik Assadourian

23 April 2014

Is a “degrowth-based” system the solution to the world’s biggest ecological and social problems?

Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged climate change, consumers, degrowth, Erik Assadourian, fossil fuel, GDP, Genuine Progress Indicator, growth, poverty, Serge Latouche, sustainable development, well-being, Worldwatch Institute

The prosperity index

The prosperity index

16 February 2012

The Legatum Prosperity Index provides the world’s only global assessment of national prosperity based on both wealth and well-being

Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged Africa, Americas, Asia-Pacific Region, Australia, botswana, Canadá, chile, China - Hong Kong SAR, China - Taiwan, Costa Rica, definition of prosperity, Denmark, economy, éducation, Entrepreneurship and opportunity, Europe, Finland, GDP, Ghana, global assessment of national prosperity, governance, happy healthy and free citizens, Industrial Development Organization, Israel, issue 9, Kuwait, Legatum Prosperity Index, Making It magazine, Mali, Middle East and North Africa, Namibia, New Zealand, Norway, our low-carbon future, personal freedom, safety and security, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, social capital, South Africa, sustainable industrial development, Sweden, Switzerland, The Prosperity Index, the United States, Tunisia, UN, UNIDO, United Arab Emirates, United Nations, Uruguay, wealth and well-being

The barefoot economist

The barefoot economist

7 September 2011

Acclaimed Chilean economist, Manfred Max-Neef, argues for a radically different approach to economics to eliminate poverty and preserve biodiversity

Posted in All Posts, Global Forum | Tagged alternative development, Amy Goodman, barefoot economics, Berkeley, biochemical, Centro de Estudio y Promoción de Auntos Urbanos, CEPAUR, chile, creativity, Democracy Now, development, different values, economy, ecosystem, environment, GDP, global governance, green, growth, how to reduce poverty, how to save the environment, Industrial Development Organization, issue 7, knowledge, latin america, Making It, Manfred Max-Neef, Peru, poverty, Right Livelihood Award, science, sustainability, sustainable, trade, UN, UNIDO, United Nations

Hot topic: The many benefits of energy efficiency

Hot topic: The many benefits of energy efficiency

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

Agribusiness: Africa's way out of poverty

Agribusiness: Africa’s way out of poverty

15 June 2011

Patrick Kormawa argues that a shift to an agribusiness development growth trajectory is crucial for poverty reduction

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged 2011, Abuja, Africa, agribusiness, agriculture, agro-processing, capital, clean, dependency, development, East Asia, economic growth strategies, efficient, energy, exploiting, financing, food security, GDP, Global, globalization, green, green revolution, growth, human resource, Industrial Development Organization, industrialization, infrastructure, innovation, institution, intervention, issue 6, labour-intensive, land, Latin America and the Caribbean, low-carbon, Making It magazine, modernity, nation, Nigeria, Patrick Kormawa, policy, policymaker, poverty reduction, private enterprise, prosperity, public, Recycling, renewable, services, social stability, Sough Asia, South Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, sustainability, sustainable intensification, systems, technology, Thailand, The Future of Food and Farming, transparency, UNIDO, United Nations, urbanization, value addition, World Bank, youth employment, Zimbabwe

Cape Verde: the graduate

Cape Verde: the graduate

10 May 2011

Fátima Fialho, Cape Verde’s Minister of Tourism, Industry and Energy, on how her country graduated from the list of LDCs, and how it plans to develop as a middle-income country

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged African Development Bank Group, African development progress, article, beach hotels, Benito Mussolini, botswana, business environment, Cape Verde, commerce, conditions, deficit, develop, Donald Kaberuka, Economic Development, employment, enterprise, entrepreneurship, Fátima Fialho, FDI, feature, fisheries, foreign investment, GDP, global crisis, government policy, government services, Industrial Development, Industry and Energy, international trade, issue 5, ldc, least developed countries, light manufacturing industries, Making It, middle-income country, Minister of Tourism, money, ODA, official development assistance, oil, organization, poverty, private sector, privatization, remittances, resource, revenue, Sal, services sector, small population, trade, transport, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, World Trade Organization, WTO

Agribusiness in Africa

Agribusiness in Africa

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

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