1 November 2013
Ulla Heher argues for inclusive and sustainable industrial development in the post-2015 approach.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged competitiveness, entrepreneurship, inclusive, inclusive and sustainable industrial development, industrial policy, LDCs, manufacturing, MDGs, MICs, natural resource, Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals, Post-2015 Development Agenda, prosperity, Rio-20, sustainable development, Ulla Heher, UNGC, UNIDO
31 October 2012
Professor Klaus M. Leisinger, chair of the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development, explores some of the issues at the intersection between industry and health.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged access to medicines, Africa, Arogya Parivar, basic health rights, counterfeit medicines, CSR, generics, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, global health, intellectual property, Klaus M. Leisinger, LDCs, Making It, malaria, MDGs, Medicines for Malaria Venture, Millennium Development Goals, non-governmental organizations, Novartis, Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development, pharmaceutical industry, public health resources, research-based pharmaceutical corporations, sanitation, UN Global Compact, Working Group on Access to Essential Medicines, World Health Organization Essential Medicines List, World Health Report
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
11 September 2011
A country feature on the possibility of Bangladesh’s graduation from LDC status, and exclusive interview with the Minister of Industries
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged agriculture, Bangladesh, Bangladeshi Minister of Industries, capitalism, collective, competition, country features, Debapriya Bhattacharya, democratic deliberation, development, Dilip Barua, economic arrangements, emerging market economy, gender equality, Global, global commons, global ecosystem, globalization, governance, graduations from LDC status, green industry, growth, imbalance, individualism, Industrial Development, inequality, institutions, International, interview, issue 7, ldc, Least Developed Country, macroeconomic, Making It, market, MDGs, nation state, opportunities, policy, political economy, politics, productivity, regulation, stabilization, subsidies, sustainability, technology transfer, trade, UN, UNIDO, United Nations
25 August 2011
Thomas Pogge breaks down narratives about our efforts to fight world poverty and exposes a series of broken promises and rigged initiatives
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged aflluent countries, anti-dumping, banks, Branko Milanovic, China, climate change, corruption, developing countries, development assistance, DRC, economic growth, economic system, economy, efficiency, embezzlement, employment, endemic malaria, extreme poverty, extreme weather, feudal system, Food and Agriculture Organization, free market, GFI, global economic growth, Global Financial Integrity, global warming, governing a globalized world, government, green, health, hunger, impoverishment, Indonesia, institutional design, institutional reform, issue 7, Kofi Annan, lenders, Making It magazine, MDGs, media, Millennium Declaration, Millennium Development Goals, natural resources, Nigeria, oppression, politics, pollution, poor, population, post-MDG era, premature deaths, private foreign aid, public foreign aid, rising sea levels, Rome Declaration, statistics, sustainability, sustainable, Thomas Pogge, trade, UN, UN FAO, undernutrition, UNIDO, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, United States, weapons, World Bank, World Food Security, world poverty, Yale University
8 July 2011
Kenneth Marsh points out how better packaging can help add value and preserve food and pharmaceuticals in developing countries
Posted in Policy Brief | Tagged agribusiness, agricultural production, business, company, consultant, cultural factors, developed countries, developing countries, distribution, Economic Development, FAO, farm, food, Global, globalization, grain, hunger, innovation, issue 6, Kenneth Marsh, law, legal, legality, loss, machinery, Making It, market, material, MDGs, Millennium Development Goals, multinational companies, packaging, pharmaceutical, plastic, poor storage, private sector, production rate, public sector, shipping, Sri Lanka, sustainability, sustainable production, technology, transport, transportation, UN, UN Food and Agricultural Organization, UNIDO, United Nations, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, United States, US, value, value-added packaged food
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
20 December 2009
His Excellency Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda, answers questions about his country’s development strategy.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged AGOA, agriculture, BRALIRWA, COMESA, development, EAC, East African Community, Economic Development, EPA, EU, European Union, exports, fauna, finance, flora, genocide, government, HIV/AIDS, ICT, interview, investment, Issue 1, James Musoni, Kagame, labour, land-linked, land-locked, leadership, malaria, MDGs, Millennium Development Goals, minister, national parks, poor, Poverty Reduction Strategy, private sector, recovery, Rwanda, Rwanda Environment Management Agency, small industry, transformation, UNDP, UNIDO, United Nations, United States, World Bank
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