News headlines for “Trade, Economy, & Related Issues”, page 1986
DEVELOPMENT: Plotting a World Without LDCs
- Inter Press Service
Malawi's gross domestic product has grown by more than six percent in each year since 2005. The country's most recent Welfare Monitoring Survey finds unemployment stands at just one percent. At a glance, Malawi makes being a landlocked, least developed country almost desirable.
INDIA: Smuggling Everything From Cough Syrup to Sex
- Inter Press Service
Sakina Bibi is a sex worker in the red light area of Kalabagan in Murshidabad, a border district in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal where everything from cattle to electronic goods, from rice and sugar to cough syrup, and women, are being smuggled.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Four Percent for Education
- Inter Press Service
The government of the Dominican Republic, where one-third of the population of is under 14 years of age, is facing a well- organised and growing citizens' campaign to increase the amount spent on public education.
AFRICA: Investment Growth Benefiting Only Some Poor States
- Inter Press Service
While foreign direct investment in least developed countries (LDCs) in Africa has risen sharply over the past decade, most of it went to resource-rich economies and had little impact on employment creation.
ARGENTINA: Targeting Teens in Prevention of Gender Violence
- Inter Press Service
'If I had only known that when I was young,' or 'if they had only told me' are just some of the statements made by many women who seek assistance at the centre for victims of gender violence set up by the local government in a town on the outskirts of the Argentine capital.
Can Microcredit Reclaim Its Visionary Mission?
- Inter Press Service
As controversy mounts over the efficacy of microfinance as a global poverty-alleviation effort, the 15th Global Microcredit Summit, scheduled to kick off on Nov. 14 in Valladolid, Spain, will be forced to answer critical questions about poverty, resources and tactics.
CENTRAL AMERICA: Boosting Small Enterprise to Fight Poverty
- Inter Press Service
Small and medium-sized companies in Central America are the targets of foreign development aid programmes aimed at fighting the region's high poverty levels.
Somali Women Entrepreneurs Carve a Niche in Boston
- Inter Press Service
Deeqo Jibril is always on the go. Whether she is tending to her four children or teaching breast cancer awareness classes to women in her community, the Somali-born community organiser is always up for a new challenge.
Radio Free Libya Transmits Live from Misurata
- Inter Press Service
For residents of besieged Misurata, all it takes is a flick of the dial to tune into freedom.
Former Minister Warns of Tunisia Coup Risk
- Inter Press Service
Tunisia's former interior minister has warned that lingering members of the country's former political elite may carry out a coup d'etat if Islamists win a majority in the upcoming election.
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