Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 1117
If You Want to Conserve Biodiversity, Protect Latin America
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Sep 10 (IPS) - A team of scientists who analysed the richness of plant species around the world concluded that the ecosystems in need of immediate protection in order to meet the 2020 conservation goals set by the Convention on Biological Diversity are largely concentrated in Latin America.
Somalia President Rides Through a Bumpy Year
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU/NAIROBI, Sep 10 (IPS) - After his first year as president of the world's most dangerous and failed state, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is still grappling with limited financial resources, corruption, a lack of service delivery, and the ongoing assassinations of government officials, including attempts on his own life.
Afghans Caught Between Terror and Corruption
- Inter Press Service
HERAT, Afghanistan, Sep 10 (IPS) - The threat to the stability of the Hamid Karzai government in Afghanistan arises not so much from outside as from within. And the one thing that is eating into its edifice is the malaise called corruption.
Dwindling Water Supplies Make Every Drop Count
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Sep 09 (IPS) - Drought and chronic water shortages played a significant role in sparking Syria's civil war and in unrest throughout much of the Middle East, water experts now believe.
Bitcoins Catching On in Latin America
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Sep 09 (IPS) - The Bitcoin, a virtual currency that circulates outside regular financial systems, is catching on in Latin America.
Downsizing Finance: The Mother of All Bubbles
- Inter Press Service
ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida, Sep 09 (IPS) - As our climate destabilises, floods inundate cities, wildfires burn forests, droughts kill our crops and manmade radioactive isotopes leach into our soil and water, many accountants and policy analysts are waking up. They are joined by NGOs, civic leaders, whistle-blowers and a few public-minded politicians.
Mugabe’s Policies Starve Zimbabweans
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Sep 09 (IPS) - Tambudzai Javangwe from Mwenezi district in southern Zimbabwe, has run out of food and each day she begs for hand-outs from well-wishers so that she can feed herself an her six orphaned grandchildren.
Egyptian Workers Rising Again After the Uprising
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Sep 09 (IPS) - It was the Egyptian state's brutal restrictions on worker freedoms that transformed Kareem El-Beheiry from a disengaged lay worker into a tenacious labour activist.
"Bring What You Want, Take What You Want”
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Sep 08 (IPS) - Disillusioned with an economy that promotes individualism and ruthless consumption, thousands of people in Argentina are giving things away in street markets, organising car pools with strangers or offering free accommodation to travellers from abroad.
Africa's Farmers Seek Private Money
- Inter Press Service
MAPUTO, Sep 08 (IPS) - Africa currently imports almost 40 billion dollars worth of food a year, but it should implement measures to attract private sector investment in agriculture in order to reduce its food import bill and increase its self-reliance, experts in the sector tell IPS.
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