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Social contract needed to lift Asia and Pacific region’s workforce out of poverty
- UN News
Denied decent work opportunities and highly vulnerable to systemic shocks such as pandemics or economic downturns, workers in Asia and the Pacific are under pressure, according to a report launched on Tuesday by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).
Afghanistan: A Treasure Worth More than a Trillion Dollars
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Sep 06 (IPS) - Both mainstream media, international bodies and human rights defenders continue to rightly denounce the Taliban's inhuman abuses against the Afghan people’s basic rights, in particular those of women and girls.
Eight International Development Priorities for the new UK Prime Minister
- Inter Press Service
BRIGHTON, UK, Sep 06 (IPS) - The UK’s new Prime Minister (and former Foreign Secretary), Liz Truss, enters Downing Street with a full and urgent in-tray, dominated by the highest inflation rate for 40 years and concerns across the country about the cost-of-living crisis.
1980s Redux? New context, Old Threats
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Sep 06 (IPS) - As rich countries raise interest rates in double-edged efforts to address inflation, developing countries are struggling to cope with slowdowns, inflation, higher interest rates and other costs, plus growing debt distress.
The Right Policies Can Protect the Workers of Asia and the Pacific
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Sep 05 (IPS) - Most of the 2.1 billion strong workforce in Asia and the Pacific are denied access to decent jobs, health care and social protection but there is an array polices and tools that governments can use to remedy these deficiencies and ensure that the rights and aspirations of these workers and their families are upheld and that they remain the engine of economic growth for the region.
Malawian Farmers Reap More from Sunflower, Chillies
- Inter Press Service
Blantyre, Sep 05 (IPS) - Having harvested and graded their sunflower crop instead of taking it to market, every member of Zikometso Productive and Innovation Centre (IPC) brings their produce to the factory for cooking oil production. The IPC falls under the National Smallholder Farmers Association of Malawi (Nasfarm).
The Dying Children Divide
- Inter Press Service
PORTLAND, USA, Sep 05 (IPS) - The chances of a child dying before reaching age five years have dropped substantially worldwide during the recent past. However, a significant divide remains among countries as well as within regions in the chances of children dying.
A Plea for the Creation of a UN Youth Assembly
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Sep 05 (IPS) - There are many ways the UN can have a sizeable role in promoting the engagement and participation of youth and helping them becoming a central pillar of a new way of doing policy-making.
Biomethane, the Energy that Cleans Garbage in Brazil
- Inter Press Service
FORTALEZA, Brazil, Sep 05 (IPS) - The increasing productivity with which humankind generates waste has gained at least one sustainable counterpart: the extraction of biogas from landfills, a growing activity in Brazil.
Special Economic Zones: A Nod Towards Capitalism in Venezuela
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Sep 03 (IPS) - Venezuela is preparing to replicate the experience of Special Economic Zones (SEZs), a mechanism with which more than 60 countries have tried to draw investment and accelerate economic growth, while under its avowedly socialist government a "silent neoliberalism" is gaining ground.
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