Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 1039
Youth Around the World See Meagre Opportunities
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 03 (IPS) - Although half the world's population is under 25 years old, young people in more than two dozen countries feel that their opportunities for educational, economic and societal advancement are limited, according to new research released here Thursday.
U.N. Aims at Treaty to Protect Marine Biodiversity
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 03 (IPS) - At a political level, when the United Nations speaks of a "high seas alliance", it is probably a coalition of countries battling modern piracy in the Indian Ocean.
Fracking, Seismic Activity Grow Hand in Hand in Mexico
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Apr 03 (IPS) - Scientists warn that large-scale fracking for shale gas planned by Mexico's oil company Pemex will cause a surge in seismic activity in northern Mexico, an area already prone to quakes.
Using Ethiopia’s Healthcare Gaps to Do Good and Make a Profit
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Apr 03 (IPS) - For a while now, Magnetic Resonance Imaging or MRI scanners have typically been a luxury that both government and private hospitals in Ethiopia have struggled to afford to purchase for in-house use.
California Cities Gear Up to Fight “Big Soda”
- Inter Press Service
BERKELEY, Apr 02 (IPS) - Mexico is fighting obesity and accompanying diseases with a one-peso per litre tax on sugar-sweetened beverages that kicked in Jan. 1. France implemented its "cola tax" in 2012. Several U.S. states tax sugar-sweetened beverages, including Vermont, Rhode Island, Arkansas, Tennessee, West Virginia and Virginia. Illinois legislators are considering such a tax.
Rural Costa Rican Women Plant Trees to Fight Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
PITAL, Costa Rica, Apr 02 (IPS) - Olga Vargas, a breast cancer survivor, is back in the countryside, working in a forestry programme in the north of Costa Rica aimed at empowering women while at the same time mitigating the effects of climate change.
Africa’s Youth Not Lured by Unglamorous Farming
- Inter Press Service
TUNIS/ADDIS ABABA, Apr 02 (IPS) - Ketsela Negatu is the son of an Ethiopian goat farmer living close to the country's capital, Addis Ababa, who refuses to follow in his father's footsteps. The 19-year-old has negative perceptions about the family profession after seeing the dim prospects a farming livelihood has offered his father.
Afghans Set to Vote Along Ethnic Lines
- Inter Press Service
KABUL, Apr 02 (IPS) - Ethnicities will be to the fore in the Afghan elections due Saturday this week, even though some promise appears that the young are beginning to break away from such loyalties.
World Bank to Double Lending to Middle-Income Countries
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 01 (IPS) - The World Bank is aiming to double its lending to middle-income countries over the coming decade, in addition to expanding its overall commitments to some 70 billion dollars a year.
Donors Repeatedly Postpone Major Aid Effectiveness Report
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 01 (IPS) - Major foreign assistance donors have once again delayed the release of a report meant to measure transparency, accountability and cooperation of aid effectiveness.
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