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Working women transforming the Muslim world

Working women transforming the Muslim world

11 November 2019

Saadia Zahidi explains how a new generation of educated, tech-savvy women are shaking up the labour market

Posted in All Posts, Features, Global Forum | Tagged Asia, Centre for the New Economy and Society, entrepreneurs, Fifty Million Rising, gender, Middle East, multinationals, Muslim-majority economies, Muslims, SAADIA ZAHIDI, women, women entrepreneurs | Leave a response

Entrepreneurship is a tool for social inclusion

Entrepreneurship is a tool for social inclusion

6 September 2016

Fadi Ghandour wants to inspire, empower and connect entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Aramex, capital, connect, development, empower, entrepreneurship, Fadi Ghandour, General Electric, MENA region, Middle East, North Africa, Wamda, Wamda Research Lab

Youth unemployment and the Arab Spring

Youth unemployment and the Arab Spring

17 November 2012

Three perspectives on a major challenge confronting the countries of the Middle East and North Africa.

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Arab Spring, Dead Sea, éducation, Egypt, employment, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, Facebook revolution, higher education colleges, imed drine, innovation, International Finance Corporation, Islamic Development Bank, Jordan Forum for Business and Professional Women, Jordan’s University of Science and Technology, labour force, labour-intensive, Maharat Employment and Training Programme, Making It, Marrakech, MENA, Middle East, Mohamed Abaran, Morocco, North afria, private sector, Queen Rania’s Centre for Entrepreneurship, Sarah Khalid, Saudi Arabia, social exclusion, Syria, Tawjihi, technology, training, Tunisia, unemployment, university, wider, Yemen, youth

On the road again – with a new roadmap

On the road again – with a new roadmap

11 November 2011

European Commissioner for Environment, Janez Potočnik, on why environmentalists and industry in Europe must work together to decouple growth from resource depletion

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Antonio Tajani, Asia-Pacific, business, cobalt, competition, development, earth, environmental authorities, EU, Europe, European Commission, European Commissioner for Environment, European Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship, European Union, gender, global market economy, globalization, green industry, how to be resourceful with limited resources, import-dependent, Industrial Development Organization, infrastructure, innovation, interconnectedness, issue 8, Janez Potocnik, labour costs, labour productivity, latin america, Making It, Middle East, minerals, North Africa, planet, platinum, population, poverty alleviation, prices and costs, resource depletion, resources, roadmap for a resource-efficient Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, titanium, trade, UNIDO, United Nations, vanadium, what to do to save the environment

Engineering eco-friendly solutions

Engineering eco-friendly solutions

1 November 2011

Carolina Guerra is a pioneering eco-entrepreneur from Colombia who turns hazardous waste into useful products. In October 2011, she won the prestigious Cartier Women’s Initiative Award for Latin America

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged aluminium recycling, Asia-Pacific, business, Carolina Guerra, Cartier Women's Initiative Awards, Colombia, competition, development, entrepreneur, environmental authorities, ethical solutions, Europe, gender, gender discrimination, green industry, hazardous waste, Industrial Development Organization, Ingerecuperar, INSEAD business school, international business, issue 8, latin america, Making It, McKinsey & Company, Middle East, Ministry of Environment, North Africa, poverty alleviation, prize, Regional Autonomous Corporations, small business ideas, Sub-Saharan Africa, UNIDO, United Nations, women entrepreneurs, Women's Forum

An Arab Spring for women?

An Arab Spring for women?

23 June 2011

Lina Abou-Habib asks if revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa can be a vehicle for the economic empowerment of women, or whether patriarchy will prevail

Posted in All Posts, Global Forum | Tagged accountability, agribusiness, agriculture, Arab Spring, Ben Ali, change, Collective for Research and Training on Development-Action, CRTDA, developing countries, dictator, discrimination, economy, Egypt, equality, feminism, gender, gender equality, impunity, Industrial Development Organization, Iran, issue 6, labour, leadership, liberation, Lina Abou-Habib, Making It magazine, market, MENA, Middle East, North Africa, patriarchy, policy, politics, post-revolution era, power, prejudice, public sphere, religion, revolution, social institutions, society, Tahrir Square, transformation, Tunisia, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, violence, women, Yemen

Hot topic: Aviation – meeting the climate challenge

Hot topic: Aviation – meeting the climate challenge

1 March 2011

What the aviation industry is doing to stem the rising CO2 levels that lead to climate change

Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged Africa, air transport action group, air transport industry, airspace management, ATAG, Avaiation and Environment Summit, biofuel, carbon neutral, challenge, China, civil aviation, climate change, co2 emissions, commitment, design, development, economic activity, efficiency, executive director, fleet renewal, fuel, Global, goods, government, growth, India, Industrial Development Organization, infrastructure, latin america, Making It, Middle East, mobility, operational improvement, Paul Steele, people, policy, policymakers, sustainability, target, technology, trade, UNIDO, United Nations, worldwide alliance

Renewables: the new global landscape

Renewables: the new global landscape

31 January 2011

The importance of renewable energy relative to conventional energy sources is clear, but to what extent is the drive to develop clean energy a preserve of developed countries?

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Argentina, biogas, biomas, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Brazil, charcoal, China, clean energy, Colobia, communication, conventional, cooking, Costa Rica, developed, developing, development, dung, Ecuador, Egypt, electric grid, electricity, energy, Ethiopia, Europe, geography, Ghana, Global Wind Energy Council, heat, India, Indonesia, industry, investment, Jordan, Kenya, kerosene, Kutch wind farm, Kuwait, latin america, lighting, Making It magazine, Mexico, Middle East, moern, Morocco, North Africa, Pakistan, Peru, photovoltaics, plan, policy, pollution, power capacity, pv, remote areas, REN21, renewable energy, Renewables 2010 Global Status Report, Republic of Korea, resources, rural, services, solar, South Africa, straw, Sub-Saharan Africa, sugar-derived ethanol, sustainable, Tanzania, technology, Thailand, the Philippines, the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century, Tunisia, Tuvalu, UN, UNEP, UNIDO, United Nations, United Nations Environment Programme, Uruguay, wind power plants, wood

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