LDCs: On track to prosperity? Making It Issue 4

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Number 1, December 2009 l Rwanda means business: interview with President Paul Kagame l How I became an environmentalist: A small-town story with global implications by Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, Green For All l ‘We must let nature inspire us’ – Gunter Pauli presents an alternative business model that is environmentally-friendly and sustainable l Old computers – new business. Microsoft on sustainable solutions for tackling e-waster l Green industry in Asia: Conference participants interviewed l Hot Topic: Is it possible to have prosperity without growth? Is ‘green growth’ really possible? l Policy Brief: Greening industrial policy; Disclosing carbon emissions

Number 2, April 2010 l ‘After Copenhagen’ – Bianca Jagger calls for immediate steps to avoid climate catastrophe l The Interational Energy Agency’s Nobuo Tanaka looks at energy transitions for industry l ‘Energy for all’ – Kandeh Yumkella and Leena Srivastava on what needs to be done to improve energy access l Women entrepreneurs transforming Bangladesh l ‘Everywhere under the sun’ – Suntech CEO, Zhengrong Shi, on the power of solar l Hot Topic: The pros and cons of biofuels l Policy Brief: Financing renewable energy; Feed-in tariffs

Number 3, July 2010 l China’s stunning economic rise: interview with minister of commerce, Chen Deming l Jayati Ghosh on politicizing economic policy l ‘Towards a more productive debate’ – Ha-Joon Chang calls for an acceptance that industrial policy can work l The World Bank’s Robert Zoellick on modernizing multilateralism l ‘Greening the Mexican economy’ – Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada l Hot Topic: Does microfinance work? l Policy Brief: The private sector and development; The power of patient capital

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