News headlines for “Trade, Economy, & Related Issues”, page 2000
JAPAN: Difficult Shift From Aid Donor to Recipient
- Inter Press Service
April has traditionally being the time for ‘hanami’ or cherry blossom festivals here when millions of Japanese hold parties under the pink flowering trees in parks and streets lit up gaily by lanterns.
DEATH PENALTY: 'It Cheapens Human Life'
- Inter Press Service
In a country where the death penalty enjoys vocal support from both the government and the public, lawyer and politician Duma Boko is not afraid to stand firmly against it. Boko will be in court on Apr. 15 to argue for the life of a client against daunting odds.
More Economic BRICS in the Development Wall
- Inter Press Service
As BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) leaders prepare for Thursday’s summit in the resort town of Sanya in China’s southern Hainan province, experts here say there are limits to how ‘political’ the grouping can get.
Libyan Exodus Shrinks Remittances
- Inter Press Service
The exodus of migrants streaming out of Libya due to ongoing unrest has highlighted the heavy dependence of some countries on remittances from their citizens working abroad. In several countries this flow has now become choked.
South Africa Makes Its Debut at BRICS Summit
- Inter Press Service
The BRICS summit begins with a meeting of trade ministers on Wednesday on China's Hainan island, with South Africa participating in the gathering of leading emerging economies for the first time.
LATIN AMERICA: Boosting Accountability for Mining and Oil Industries
- Inter Press Service
Guatemala has been accepted as a candidate country by the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), which aims to strengthen governance by improving transparency and accountability in the sector, and to reduce tensions between mining and oil companies and local people affected by their activities.
Smart Planning for the Global Family
- Inter Press Service
When it comes to population growth, the United Nations has three primary projections. The medium projection, the one most commonly used, has world population reaching 9.2 billion by 2050. The high one reaches 10.5 billion. The low projection, which assumes that the world will quickly move below replacement-level fertility, has population peaking at eight billion in 2042 and then declining.
BRAZIL: Sugar Cane Fertilises Its Own Soil
- Inter Press Service
The mechanisation of sugar cane harvesting, originally aimed at curbing the pollution caused by the burning of cane fields, has resulted in an added bonus: it has helped to improve soil quality, according to growers and technical experts in the southern state of São Paulo, where most of Brazil’s sugar and ethanol is produced.
Libyan Rebels Reject African Union Road Map
- Inter Press Service
Libya's opposition Transitional National Council has rejected outright the African Union's proposal to negotiate a way out from the country's deepening crisis.
Israel Leads the Electric Charge
- Inter Press Service
A woman takes the driver's seat, turns on the radio, sliding through broadcasts of the tit-for-tat battles between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas till she finds a quiet music station.
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