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News headlines for “Trade, Economy, & Related Issues”, page 2404
DEVELOPMENT: For a Greener Green Revolution
- Inter Press Service
A new Green Revolution that is truly green is needed to prevent efforts to eradicate hunger colliding with climate change goals, environmentalists say.
AFRICA: Lost in the Tracking of Budgets
- Inter Press Service
As Susan Muonanji and other vendors scrambled around one of the many transport busses to sell cabbages and tomatoes at a market along one of Malawi’s key roads, a national budget session just started in parliament some 100 kilometres away in the capital city, Lilongwe.
AFRICA: Broken Promises Litter the Aftermath of Global Crisis
- Inter Press Service
It seems that, once again, Africa and the rest of the developing world have been short-changed, given the broken promises in the wake of the global economic implosion.
TRADE: What Will China’s Legacy in Africa be by 2049?
- Inter Press Service
With its recent history of tremendous economic growth, China has a few lessons to teach Africans. But African governments should be vigilant in ensuring that their countries also reap benefits from their relations with China.
TRADE-SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Rice Tariffs Snarl ASEAN Single Market
- Inter Press Service
Rice, the staple dish across South-east Asia, has emerged as an apt symbol of the region’s commitment — or lack of it — to unveiling a free trade area for its 10 members when the New Year dawns.
CHINA: Cultural Counteroffensive at Int’l Book Fair: Hit or Miss?
- Inter Press Service
This year’s Frankfurt Book Fair may have been more of an embarrassment than prestige for its guest of honour — China — but the country’s cultural mandarins still believe that the future of cultural ideas belongs to the Middle Kingdom and that the global financial crisis will play a role in helping them achieve that.
AFGHANISTAN: NATO Members in Waiting Mode
- Inter Press Service
Corruption, doubts over Afghan leadership, and faltering public support have emerged as the main stumbling blocks to a demand for more NATO troops in Afghanistan.
RIGHTS: 'Too Innocent to Try, too Guilty to Fly'
- Inter Press Service
Getting blacklisted as belonging to a terrorist organisation is a punitive sanction, even though governments may say it is only an administrative measure, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR).
ENERGY: World Bank Looks for the Cleaner Way
- Inter Press Service
With new energy and environment strategies in the pipeline, the World Bank and its critics are going head to head on issues of fossil fuel funding and clean energy. The Bank will now call in outside experts to ensure that its coal power financing is justifiable, but critics would prefer it to go for truly clean energy.
MIDEAST: 'France, U.S. Pushing Arabs Into Nuclear Race'
- Inter Press Service
The decision by the oil-rich United Arab Emirates to build nuclear reactors has unleashed frenetic, politically backed competition between giant corporations from France, the U.S., Japan and South Korea to win contracts estimated at more than 40 billion dollars.
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