Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 1004
Shea Harvesting Good for Income, Bad for the Environment in Ghana
- Inter Press Service
TAMALE, Ghana, Jul 10 (IPS) - The shea tree, a traditional African food plant, represents a major source of income for women in Ghana's Northern, Upper West and Upper East regions, but they are helping to destroy the very resource that gives them money by cutting it down to produce charcoal.
Putting Population Management in Pacific Women’s Hands
- Inter Press Service
PORT VILA, Jul 10 (IPS) - Populations of many Melanesian countries in the southwest Pacific Islands region are expected to double in a generation, threatening regional and national efforts to improve low economic and human development indicators.
Zimbabwean Girls Venture into Technological Innovation
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Jul 10 (IPS) - For 22-year-old Moselyn Muchena, a final year computer science student at the University of Zimbabwe, it seemed obvious to create a mobile application offering easy access to services in the local catering industry, largely because of the huge number of female entrepreneurs in that sector.
OPINION: Obama’s Quick Fix Won’t Solve the Regional Refugee Crisis
- Inter Press Service
SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 09 (IPS) - In recent months, an unprecedented surge of refugee women and children has been traveling alone to the United States to seek protection at our southern border.
In Bangladesh, a Steady Pursuit of Freedom
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 09 (IPS) - Visiting Bangladesh has been a lifelong dream of mine, but all that I had heard about a people who love freedom so much that they have withstood great armies, famine and intractable poverty could not prepare me for what I've seen in the last three days.
New Data Sends Wake-Up Call on Caribbean Reefs
- Inter Press Service
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, Jul 09 (IPS) - Marine environmentalist Eli Fuller, who for the past two decades has been exploring the coastline of Antigua and Barbuda, warns that while there has been "dramatic changes" to coral reefs since he was a little boy, "it's getting worse and worse."
Greek Privatisation of Key Sectors Meets Strong Opposition
- Inter Press Service
ATHENS, Jul 09 (IPS) - Plans by the Greek government to sell companies that handle the key resources of energy and water face serious obstacles and its policy to offer investors exceptional privileges in an effort to boost interest in privatisation is coming under strong pressure.
U.S. Moves to Address Chronic “Teacher Equity” Problem
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 09 (IPS) - The U.S. government has moved to tackle longstanding patterns of inequitable teacher quality, specifically in terms of how low quality teachers tend to be assigned to poor and marginalised communities across the country.
World's Poorest Nations Seek Presence in Post-2015 Agenda
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 08 (IPS) - The 48 least developed countries (LDCs), described as the poorest of the world's poor, want to be an integral part of the U.N.'s post-2015 development agenda currently under discussion.
The Silent Power of Boycotts to Blockades
- Inter Press Service
CAPE TOWN, Jul 08 (IPS) - Peruse a few reports on global military expenditure and you will not be able to shake the image of the planet as one massive army camp, patrolled by heavily weaponised guards in a plethora of uniforms.
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