Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 1078
Illicit Capital Leaving Developing Countries Up by 14 Percent
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 12 (IPS) - Developing countries are likely losing more than a trillion dollars a year in "illicit financial flows" stemming from crime and corruption, according to new estimates. This fast-rising figure is already 10 times the total amount of foreign aid these countries are receiving.
U.S. Urged to Change Policy on Support to Victims of Sexual Violence
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 12 (IPS) - The U.S. government is being urged to roll back a longstanding policy that has banned foreign aid funding from being used for health care services for victims of sexual violence in conflict situations.
Mundurukú Indians in Brazil Protest Tapajós Dams
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dic 12 (IPS) - It took them three days to make the 2,000-km journey by bus from their Amazon jungle villages.
In Home Gardens, Income and Food for Urban Poor
- Inter Press Service
AMMAN, Dic 12 (IPS) - Flowers burst out of old tires and rows of pepper plants fill recycled plastic tubs as herbs pop out of old pipes. As utilitarian as it is cheery, this rooftop array is one of several urban agriculture projects that are significantly improving livelihoods for the urban poor in this sprawling city.
Reaching Quietly for the ‘Solidarity Basket’
- Inter Press Service
BELGRADE, Dic 12 (IPS) - In the early morning hours, as hundreds of people grab their breakfast at a busy bakery in Beogradska Street in the Serbian capital, a very special basket quickly fills up with croissants, rolls and breads. It is the ‘solidarity basket'.
Developing Countries Still Waiting for a Global Response to Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Dic 12 (IPS) - As president of the Council of Ministers of the African, Caribbean and Pacific states, Samoa's Prime Minister Tuilaepa Lupesoliai Sailele Malielegaoi had the perfect forum to voice his concerns about the effects climate change has had on his island nation.
Changes Coming to South Africa’s Patent System
- Inter Press Service
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Dic 12 (IPS) - Paul Anley, chief executive officer of Pharma Dynamics, one of South Africa's leading generic drug companies, wants to sell a cheaper version of popular birth control pill Yasmin. But he legally cannot because German multinational Bayer has patent protection on the drug in South Africa, even though its initial patent expired in 2010. WHO Celebrates Major Progress in Fighting Malaria
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 11 (IPS) - Enhanced efforts to fight malaria have saved an estimated 3.3 million lives and nearly halved the disease's global mortality rate since 2000, according to the latest edition of the World Health Organisation's (WHO) annual "World Malaria Report", released Wednesday.
South Africa's Arms Industry Most Advanced in Global South
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dic 11 (IPS) - When the white apartheid regime in South Africa kept the overwhelming majority of blacks under military repression, the country's security forces were armed with weapons originating mostly from a highly-developed domestic armaments industry.
In Minimum Wage Debate, A Battle Over Inequality and Job Loss
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 11 (IPS) - In the midst of a nationwide movement for policymakers to raise minimum wages for millions of workers in the United States, experts here continue to debate the advantages and drawbacks of raising the federal rate.
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