Industry

Agricultural Power, Waning Industry Dictate Brazil’s Future

By Mario Osava
With its accelerated growth agriculture has emerged as a key sector of Brazil's economy, but it is failing on its own to spread prosperity and reduce poverty and inequality, with industry in decline.

Climate Change: Some Companies Reject ‘Business as Usual’

By A. D. McKenzie
When it comes to climate change, business as usual is simply “not an option”.

OPINION: Towards an Inclusive and Sustainable Future for Industrial Development

By Li Yong and A.L. Abdul Azeez
As representatives of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), we are sometimes asked whether industrial development is still relevant to a world which many observers have claimed over the past decades to have entered the “post-industrial age”. Our answer is always an emphatic “yes”, shaped both by the evidence of history and current events.

Industry in Argentina Going Strong, But More Is Needed

By Marcela Valente
Industry in Argentina has seen a sustained rise in production, exports and employment since 2003. But in order for this trend to become a structural change, greater import substitution is needed, analysts say.

Wheels of Industry Slowing in Brazil

By Mario Osava
Industry is the ailing sector of the Brazilian economy, with production falling 2.7 percent in 2012 in spite of government incentives, and in contrast with the strong expansion of retail trade and the lowest unemployment rate in history.

“The Hands That Supply EU Imports”

By Irfan Ahmed
The European Union (EU) is Pakistan's largest trading partner, with overall trade between the two countries topping eight million euros in 2011.


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