News headlines for “Trade, Economy, & Related Issues”, page 1977
BRAZIL: Megaprojects Revive Class Struggle
- Inter Press Service
The rage was proportional to the size of the crowd cornered between the jungle and the wall that will dam up the Madeira River in northwest Brazil. Over the space of three days, workers set fire to some 50 buses and other vehicles, work installations and even their own lodgings, which were built to house 16,000 people.
DR CONGO: Measles Claims Lives as Public, Private Resources Stretched Thin
- Inter Press Service
More than 3,000 cases of measles have been recorded in the past three months in two districts of Maniema Province, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Spring Not New to Arab Women
- Inter Press Service
Women have been taking leading roles in the Arab uprisings of Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Libya, Morocco and Bahrain - shattering many decades old Western myths that Arab women are powerless and enslaved.
EU Trade Deal with India Stalemated by Threat to Affordable Drugs
- Inter Press Service
More than four years after the EU started negotiating a trade agreement with India, the process has been pushed to a stalemate by the EU’s stubborn insistence in maintaining the so-called data exclusivity clause, despite fierce opposition by Indian government negotiators and Indian and EU non- governmental organisations (NGOs).
China Ponders This Royal Business
- Inter Press Service
The glamour of the UK royal wedding is slowly disappearing from China's photo spreads, but it seems to have opened the door to a debate on the allure of old Britain's soft power and what makes an aspiring China lacking of it.
U.N. to Launch International Year of Cooperatives
- Inter Press Service
When the United Nations commemorates the International Year of Cooperatives (IYC) in 2012, the world body will recognise the contributions made by cooperatives to socioeconomic development, including poverty reduction, employment generation and social integration.
ARGENTINA: Small Loans, Big Solutions
- Inter Press Service
Avoiding the costs of traditional microcredit models, remote communities in the La Puna high plateau region in northwest Argentina have launched a successful loan programme that enables them to meet extraordinary expenses such as weaving material, school supplies or medicine.
BRAZIL: Women Break Down Barriers in Heavy Construction
- Inter Press Service
They represent just seven percent of the workers building the Santo Antonio hydroelectric dam on the Madeira River, which cuts across the Amazon jungle in northwest Brazil. But the women workers total 1,200, and many of them have had to break down barriers to jobs seen as the preserve of men.
SOUTH AFRICA: Woman Navigating a Tough Political System
- Inter Press Service
Victoria Zanele KaMagwaza-Msibi admits she is no angel. But for 30 years she’s navigated through South Africa’s tough political landscape, mainly as a member of a male-dominated party, and now as the leader of her own political party.
Guatemalan Beaches Threatened by Iron and Gas Operations
- Inter Press Service
'If they come here to extract iron from the beach, it will mean the destruction of our natural wealth and the end of tourism,' warned Leonel Palma, a hotel employee in Puerto de San José on Guatemala’s Pacific coast, where the government has granted mineral exploration licenses.
Powered by
Web feed for Trade, Economy, & Related Issues news headlines