Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 1082
Accra’s High Rents Means Ghanaians Lose
- Inter Press Service
ACCRA, Dic 04 (IPS) - Across Accra, Ghana's capital city, adverts for letting property can be found all over. But for as many placards there are, you will get just as many verbal warnings from locals cautioning people to beware of swindling agents.
WTO Urged Not to Treat Water Like Widgets
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 04 (IPS) - As government representatives gather Tuesday in Indonesia for what could be final negotiations towards a global trade agreement under the World Trade Organisation (WTO), environmentalists and social justice campaigners are urging them to specify that water resources cannot be treated as commodities.
Stability Still Elusive in Post-Election Honduras
- Inter Press Service
TEGUCIGALPA, Dic 03 (IPS) - The recent elections which were expected to strengthen the fabric of governance in Honduras failed to do so. Now the country has a president-elect with just 38.7 percent support who is facing accusations of electoral fraud, along with a fragmented parliament where the governing party will be in the minority.
Wage Hike in Haiti Doesn't Address Factory Abuses
- Inter Press Service
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Dic 03 (IPS) - Haiti's minimum wage will nudge up 12 percent on Jan. 1, from 4.65 to 5.23 dollars (or 200 to 225 gourdes) per day. Calculated hourly, it is up from 58 cents to 65 cents per hour, before taxes.
Uruguay’s Mega-Mining Law in Place – Before the Minerals
- Inter Press Service
MONTEVIDEO, Dic 03 (IPS) - The Uruguayan government, which recently passed a law on large-scale mining, does not actually have a clear idea of the country's mineral wealth and has only just now proposed a geological study to find out.
Restoring Sight to Africa's Gender-Blind Rice Sector
- Inter Press Service
NDOP, Cameroon, Dic 03 (IPS) - For more than 20 years, Anastasia Ngwakun from Bamunkumbit village in central Cameroon has been farming rice the hard way – using only hand tools. But Ngwakun knows that if she were a man, she would have access to the technology that would not require her to work so hard.
Health Gaps Between Most Countries Could Close by 2035
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 03 (IPS) - The gap in health standards between the world's poorest countries and the more advanced middle-income nations could close by the year 2035, according to a major new report published Tuesday by Britain's The Lancet medical journal.
Argentine Protesters vs Monsanto: “The Monster is Right on Top of Us”
- Inter Press Service
MALVINAS ARGENTINAS, Córdoba, Argentina, Dic 02 (IPS) - The people of this working-class suburb of Córdoba in Argentina's central farming belt stoically put up with the spraying of the week-killer glyphosate on the fields surrounding their neighbourhood. But the last straw was when U.S. biotech giant Monsanto showed up to build a seed plant.
Unexploded Shells Tearing Lives Apart
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, India, Dic 02 (IPS) - A vast and picturesque meadow called Tosamaidan, about 112 km west of Jammu and Kashmir's capital Srinagar, has now become the rallying point for hundreds of villagers who want the artillery exercises being carried out there by the Indian Army to stop.
Saving Children From Loggers
- Inter Press Service
AUKI, Malaita Province, Solomon Islands, Dic 01 (IPS) - Logging is the largest industry in the Solomon Islands, an archipelago located northwest of Fiji, where 80 percent of the islands are covered in tropical rainforest. But, although timber accounts for 60 percent of this South Pacific nation's export earnings, most local communities have experienced no beneficial development.
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