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15 August 2013
Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu, the founder and managing director of the Ethiopian footwear company, soleRebels, explains how she set up the company.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu, changing dynamic, Ethiopia, Export-oriented, higher-value, SoleRebels, Sub-Saharan Africa, trade, transition, Tyre-soled shoes, Workers’ rights
21 January 2013
Muneer Kirmani on how solar-charged lanterns enable education in sub-Saharan Africa.
Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged chores, éducation, female pupils, Ishmael Bangura, Kambia, Kandeh Yumkella, kerosene, Kychom, Mhorikhanu, Muneer Kirmani, Peace Corps Education Volunteer, primary education, Sierra Leone, solar lantern, solar-charged lanterns, Sub-Saharan Africa, Susu, UNIDO
1 December 2012
Maria Eitel, CEO of the Nike Foundation, talks about The Girl Effect campaign.
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged adolescent girls, Adolescent Girls Initiative, Berhane Hewan, Binti Pamoja, developing world, early marriage, éducation, Ethiopia, Kibera, Liberia, maria eitel, Nike Foundation, poverty alleviation, Rahim Kanani, Sub-Saharan Africa, The Girl Effect, World Bank
3 October 2012
Jürgen Reinhardt on the latest developments regarding the local production of pharmaceuticals in Africa.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Africa, African pharmaceutical manufacturers, AU Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plan for Africa, drug regulatory authorities, Global Fund to Fight Aids, Good Manufacturing Practices, Investment and Technology Services Branch, Jürgen Reinhardt, LPP, Making It magazine, medicines, pandemics, patients, pharmaceutical industry, public health systems, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tuberculosis and Malaria, UNIDO Business
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 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
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
10 August 2011
Defining governance challenges in the era of globalization, and outlining some policy implications resulting from the revelation that most of the world’s poor live in middle-income countries
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged accountability, adaptation, agribusiness, aid instruments, Andy Sumner, Angola, Cameroon, China, climate change, community, demography, development assistance, development policy, economic growth, éducation, financial responsibility, Global, global warming, globalization, governance, government, healthcare, humanitarian situations, income, India, Indonesia, Industrial Development, inequality, insecurity, Institute of Development Studies, International, issue 6, issue 7, knowledge, LICs, low-income countries, magazine, Making It, MDG, MICs, middle-income countries, migration, Millennium Declaration, Millennium Development Goals, new bottom billion, Nigeria, official development assistance, Pakistan, policy, policymakers, poor, population, poverty, poverty reduction, R2P, relative poverty, resources, responsibility to protect, rich, security, strategy, Sub-Saharan Africa, Sudan, tax, trade, transitioning, understanding, UNICEF, UNIDO, United Nations, urbanization, wealth, World Bank, World Development Indicators
6 July 2011
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter, pushes for more innovative designs for the global food system
Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged Africa, agribusiness, agriculture, agro-ecology, architect, build, climate change, co2, commodities, crisis, deforestation, design, developing countries, distaster, domestic supply, donor contributions, Egypt, export, farmers, feed, fight, food crises, food security, foreign producers, France, future, g20, global food system, government, greenhouse gas emissions, health care, human rights, humanitarian supplies, hunger, import, Industrial Development, infrastructure, innovation, insecurity, International, investment, living wage, Making It magazine, market, Mozambique, Olivier De Schutter, organizations, peak prices, politics, population growth, poverty, prices, producers, protection, reinsurance mechanism, remedy, reserves, Robert Zoellick, root causes, safety, safety nets, shock, social-protection programmes, solution, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, srfood.org, stable revenue, Sub-Saharan Africa, sustainability, symptoms, technology, trade, trend, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, value chains, World Bank
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