News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 860
Dance with the Dragon
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Sep 18 (IPS) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a meeting with India Inc. to discuss the global economic crisis and how the country can seize the emerging opportunities. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government does believe this crisis is indeed an opportunity as the economy's fundamentals remain strong.
Activists Say Fracking Fails to 'Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful'
- Inter Press Service
MONTROSE, Pennsylvania, USA, Sep 17 (IPS) - U.S. activist Vera Scroggins has been sued five times by the oil industry, and since October 2013 she has faced a restraining order banning her from any properties owned or leased by one of the biggest players in Pennsylvania's natural gas rush, Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation.
OPINION: UN Committee adopts principles for sovereign debt restructuring
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Sep 17 (IPS) - As a growing number of countries face the possibility of debt crises, the United Nations General Assembly has approved a set of nine basic principles for sovereign debt restructuring processes in an effort to provide for debt restructuring that is fair and economically sustainable.
UAE Government Stresses its Abidng Support for Syrian Refugees
- Inter Press Service
ABU DHABI, Sep 17 (IPS) - In response to suggestions that the Gulf states are doing littleor nothing to help Syrians fleeing their civil war, the Government of the United Arab Emirates has announced that it has take a broad range of supportive actions to alleviate the suffering of the Syrian population and to care for Syrian refugees in Syria and abroad, reports WAM.
Brazil’s Crisis: A Blessing and a Curse
- Inter Press Service
PORTO ALEGRE, Sep 17 (IPS) - The Lula development model that lifted 35 million people out of poverty and raised living standards for another 20 million people during the governments of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2011) has run its course.
Opinion: Protracted Stagnation Threatens International Solidarity, Development
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Sep 16 (IPS) - A new post-2015 international development agenda is to be officially launched next week at a U.N. summit in New York. The ambitious list of 17 development goals includes a call for a revitalization of the global partnership for sustainable development.
Cuban Agroecological Project Aims to Foment Local Innovation
- Inter Press Service
LA PALMA, Cuba, Sep 16 (IPS) - Armando Marcelino Pi divides his day between the university, where he teaches philosophy, work on his family farm, and coordinating a group of 33 agroecological farmers, in this mountainous rural municipality in western Cuba.
U.N. to Host Meeting of World Leaders on Refugee Crisis
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 15 (IPS) - The 28-member European Union (EU), which was sharply divided over the Greek bailout financial crisis last year, is facing its biggest test of unity over the growing refugee crisis unfolding in European borders.
Opinion: Another U.N. General Assembly Talk Fest Begins
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA, Sep 15 (IPS) - UNGA 70 formally commenced on Sep. 15. In accordance with custom, it elected a new President, Denmark's Mogens Lykketoft, who has picked as the theme for his tenure as the President, "The UN at 70 - A New Commitment to Action".
Countries Using Child Soldiers Join UK Arms Fair
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Sep 15 (IPS) - Human rights and citizen activist groups are criticizing one of the world's largest arms bazaars, which opened at London's Docklands Tuesday.
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