News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 786
Will the World’s Largest Single Market Transform Africa Fortunes?
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Sep 09 (IPS) - Getting just a sliver of the global trade in goods and services worth more than 70 trillion dollars, Africans have every excuse to decide to trade among themselves.
Japan and South Africa Try to Block Proposed Ban on Domestic Ivory Trade
- Inter Press Service
HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sep 08 (IPS) - Japan and South Africa have ignited a furore at a major conservation congress by coming out against a proposed appeal to all governments to ban domestic trade in elephant ivory.
Poverty Cut by Growth Despite Policy Failure
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sep 08 (IPS) - At the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000, world leaders committed to halve the share of people living on less than a dollar a day by 2015. The World Bank's poverty line, set at $1/day in 1985, was adjusted to $1.25/day in 2005, an increase of 25% after two decades. This was then re-adjusted to $1.90/day in 2011/2012, an increase by half over 7 years! As these upward adjustments are supposed to reflect changes in the cost of living, but do not seem to parallel inflation or other related measures, they have raised more doubts about poverty line adjustments.
India and China, a New Era of Strategic Partners?
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Sep 08 (IPS) - Despite bilateral dissonances and an unresolved boundary issue, India and China -- two of the world's most ancient civilisations -- are engaged in vigorous cooperation at various levels. The Asian neighbours' relationship has also focussed global attention in recent years on Asia's demographically dominant, major developing economies engaged in common concerns of poverty alleviation and national development.
When It Comes to Conservation, Size Matters
- Inter Press Service
HONOLULU, Hawaii, USA, Sep 08 (IPS) - When the communities living in the Tatamá y Serranía de los Paraguas Natural National Park in the west of Colombia organised in 1996 to defend their land and preserve the ecosystem, they were fighting deforestation, soil degradation and poaching.
Fossil Fuels: At What Price?
- Inter Press Service
OSLO, Sep 07 (IPS) - We often read comparisons between the prices of solar energy or wind energy with the prices of fossil fuels. It is encouraging to see that renewables are rapidly becoming competitive, and are often cheaper than coal or oil. In fact, if coal, oil and natural gas were given their correct prices renewables would be recognized as being incomparably cheaper than fossil fuels.
Communities See Tourism Gold in Derelict Bougainville Mine
- Inter Press Service
PANGUNA, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, Sep 07 (IPS) - The Panguna copper mine, located in the mountains of Central Bougainville, an autonomous region in the southwest Pacific Island state of Papua New Guinea, has been derelict for twenty seven years since an armed campaign by local landowners forced its shutdown and triggered a decade-long civil war in the late 1980s.
Finding the Sweet Spot of Africa’s Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 06 (IPS) - Africa is a continent where, at least outwardly, we like to celebrate our diversity—the rich variety that can be found in our many cultures, languages, fashions, flora and fauna. That's why it's perplexing to see such a large segment of the African population depending on a very small number of food crops, like maize, rice and wheat.
Yemeni Refugees Still Stuck on Wrong Side of the Water
- Inter Press Service
OBOCK, Djibouti, Sep 06 (IPS) - Tears emerge from the slit of 20-year-old Gada's black niqab face veil. After more than a minute's silence she still can't answer the question: How bad was it in Yemen before you left?
Islam Right Now
- Inter Press Service
ALICANTE, Spain, Sep 06 (IPS) - Watching Christianity nearly a century–fundamentalist Christians fighting ritualistic Christians fighting secularism, generally moving fundamentalism–>ritualism–>secularism–maybe the same for Islam? Their similarities make "Islam right now" a repetition of Christianity; their differences shout, Watch Out! Let us see where this leads us.
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