Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 1091
Middle East Women Mean Business
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Nov 13 (IPS) - Evidence is mounting to suggest women entrepreneurs are more common in the Middle East than in startup capital Silicon Valley, and some even say it's a more supportive place for them to start a business.
St. Vincent’s Volcano Holds More Promise Than Peril
- Inter Press Service
KINGSTOWN, Nov 12 (IPS) - Weary of sky-high electricity prices, St. Vincent is following in the footsteps of another, decidedly un-tropical island nearly 4,000 miles away in its quest to harness clean geothermal power.
OP-ED: Saudi Anger Masks Concern About Loss of Influence
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (IPS) - Saudi Arabia's public anger against the United States masks the kingdom's growing concern about its diminishing influence in the Persian Gulf and the wider Arab world.
For Poland the Right Way Is Coal
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Nov 12 (IPS) - These are busy days in the Polish capital Warsaw, even if it doesn't show. The United Nations Climate Change Conference COP 19 has opened at the National Stadium, while on the other side of the river Wisla the Polish far right gathered for their annual march on Independence Day on Monday.
Rwandans Poised to Take on African Fashion
- Inter Press Service
KIGALI, Nov 12 (IPS) - When Rwandan designer Colombe Ituze Ndutiye began drawing at the age of six, she thought she would grow up to be a cartoonist.
Little Preparation for a Great Disaster
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Nov 12 (IPS) - Despite the government's early warnings and evacuation of up to 800,000 people from vulnerable areas, the category 5 - the highest level - Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda to Filipinos) has left some communities and coastal zones in the central Philippine islands of Visayas in complete ruins.
Gaps Threaten Conflict Minerals Certification
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (IPS) - Countries in Africa's Great Lakes region are moving too slowly on an international plan to certify the sourcing of "conflict minerals", researchers here are warning, a failure that could threaten the entire certification process.
Small Islands Demand U.N. Protection
- Inter Press Service
, Nov 11 (IPS) - Threatened by rising seas, some of the world's small island developing states (SIDS) are demanding that the U.N.'s new set of Sustainable Development Goals place a high priority on the protection of oceans and marine resources.
OP-ED: A Global Green New Deal for Sustainable Development
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Nov 11 (IPS) - Eight decades ago, during the Great Depression, newly elected U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt introduced the New Deal consisting of a number of mutually supporting initiatives of which the most prominent were:
Opportunity Knocking
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Nov 11 (IPS) - A sense of urgency brought on in recent years by food price volatility inspired collective action to reduce the likelihood of further price spikes and food supply shocks.
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