Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 1107
Q&A: You Are One Percent Away from Being a Bonobo
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Oct 04 (IPS) - When author Deni Béchard discovered bonobos shared almost 99 percent of human DNA, and based their relationships on cooperation and collaboration, he knew he had to write about them.
FAO: Modernisation or Irrelevance
- Inter Press Service
Africa's Growth Story Brightens
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Oct 04 (IPS) - Not far from the headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in Ethiopia's capital city of Addis Ababa, a young woman named Bosena, 25, sits on the side of a busy road with a baby in her arms.
Parallel Economy Keeps Indians Poor
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Oct 04 (IPS) - As India grapples with rising prices and a rapidly sinking rupee, attention has turned to the country's massive parallel economy that siphons wealth away from development programmes and into the pockets of a corrupt ruling elite.
Somalia Takes Teaching to the Extreme
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU, Oct 04 (IPS) - Mukhatar Jama has been teaching at a secondary school in Mogadishu for the past decade. Religious education is part and parcel of the curriculum of all schools in Somalia, but he says most parents are unaware of exactly what their children are being taught – a radical form of Islam.
Foreign Policy Elite Frets over Washington Shutdown
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 03 (IPS) - Three days into the partial shutdown of the federal government, foreign policy mavens are voicing growing concern about the closure's impact on U.S. credibility overseas.
Cybercrime Treaty Could Be Used to Go After Cyberespionage
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Oct 03 (IPS) - Governments of countries that engage in large-scale electronic espionage, like the United States, and companies that develop spying software could theoretically face legal action for violating the Convention on Cybercrime.
Egyptian Revolution Brings an IVF Rush
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Oct 03 (IPS) - The young couple inspecting Dr Bassem Elhelw's Cairo Fertility Clinic knew what they wanted from him: a baby boy. They also knew they wanted the child by in vitro fertilisation (IVF).
The Dark Side of International Migration
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 02 (IPS) - The number of international migrants continues its inexorable climb even as reports of slave-like conditions continue to proliferate.
Q&A: "Guinea Bissau Is Dangerously Close to Becoming a Failed State”
- Inter Press Service
LISBON, Oct 02 (IPS) - Guinea Bissau is "close to becoming a failed state," but not due to ethnic or religious violence, which has never existed in that small West African nation, argues Nobel Peace laureate and United Nations envoy José Manuel Ramos-Horta.
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