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Intra-African Trade or Global Integration: A Chicken-and-Egg Dilemma?
- Inter Press Service
Though the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has long held that trade between African countries is too low, experts at the South Centre, an inter-governmental think tank of developing countries, say intra-continental trade is already significant in manufactured goods and promises a new path to industrialisation.
Women of the World Unite for Rights
- Inter Press Service
The world’s recent financial and political upheavals have not been kind to women. In Libya’s Tripoli, female suicide rates increased tenfold during the revolution, while dismal job prospects have young Greek women abandoning their career aspirations, participants in a global forum on women’s rights said over the weekend.
Taiwanese Activists Cold to Human Rights Claims
- Inter Press Service
The first official national human rights report issued by Taiwan’s rightist Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang or KMT) government disappointed civil society and human rights advocates, who have described the document as 'an empty shell' and 'insincere'.
Egyptians learn from transition to democracy in South America
- Inter Press Service
After two-day visit to Brazil, a delegation of Egyptian businessmen and government officials is heading to Chile to learn how two South American countries transitioned to democracy in the 1980’s and 1990’s respectively, following two decades of military regime.
ARGENTINA-SPAIN: Business Must Go On
- Inter Press Service
Hundreds of Spanish companies continue to do business in Argentina, despite Madrid’s campaign in defence of Repsol, which controls YPF — the oil company that the government of Cristina Fernández plans to renationalise.
ARGENTINA-SPAIN: Business Must Go On
- Inter Press Service
Hundreds of Spanish companies continue to do business in Argentina, despite Madrid’s campaign in defence of Repsol, which controls YPF — the oil company that the government of Cristina Fernández plans to renationalise.
Solutions to the Economic Crisis
- Inter Press Service
Germany, with decreasing unit labour costs, high employment, quality export products, and a single euro currency, had an eurozone trade surplus growing from 64 to 140 billion euros in the period 2002-2009. They financed the trade deficits of Greece-Italy-Portugal-Spain-Ireland (GIPSI) with credits from German banks, which amounted to 522 billion euros by 2009. They do not invest in GIPSI, but offer high interest credits to be paid back, thereby putting the GIPSIs in debt bondage, writes Johan Galtung, rector of the TRANSCEND Peace University and author of the forthcoming book "Peace Economics: From a Killing to a Living Economy"
‘Anti-Terror’ Laws Haunt Pakistan’s Unionists
- Inter Press Service
As International Labour Day approaches, rights groups in Pakistan are redoubling their efforts to win freedom for six incarcerated union leaders in Faisalabad, the country’s textile hub, who are currently serving a combined jail term of 590 years for supposedly violating the country’s ‘anti-terror’ laws.
South Africa’s Smallholders Lose Battle for Seed Security
- Inter Press Service
In an almost ceremonial manner, Selinah Mncwango opens her big plastic bag and pulls out several smaller packets, each filled with different types of seeds: sorghum, bean, pumpkin, and maize. They are her pride, her wealth, the 'pillar of my family,' says the farmer from a village in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province.
Economic Crisis Hits Gender Budgeting
- Inter Press Service
Worldwide, women are largely responsible for managing family budgets, controlling 65 percent of global spending. But, women’s needs are often ignored when it comes to government budgeting, delegates at an international meet in the Turkish capital observed.
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