News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 861
Tunisia Digs a 100-Mile Moat to Keep Refugees at Bay
- Inter Press Service
TUNIS, Sep 15 (IPS) - Once surrounding castles of old, a moat stretching 100 miles is being dug by Tunisia against alleged terror threats from nearby Libya. Reporters are kept at bay from the digging in what officials have dubbed "a closed military area."
Costa Rica Finally Allows In Vitro Fertilisation after 15-Year Ban
- Inter Press Service
SAN JOSE, Sep 15 (IPS) - After banning in vitro fertilisation for 12 years and failing to comply with an Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling for another three years, Costa Rica will finally once again allow the procedure for couples and women on their own.
Is Modi Making in India?
- Inter Press Service
New Delhi, Sep 12 (IPS) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Make in India' programme is inspired by the East Asian manufacturing export success story of development. Earlier, when he was chief minister of the state of Gujarat, he expressed an ambition of modeling the state on South Korea.
Antofagasta Mining Region Reflects Chile’s Inequality
- Inter Press Service
CALAMA, Chile, Sep 11 (IPS) - In the city of Calama, the so-called mining capital of Chile in the northern region of Antofagasta, the marked social contrasts are reflected by the proximity of affluent neighbourhoods of modern homes next to shantytowns of tumbledown wooden huts. Credit: Marianela Jarroud/IPS The inhabitants of the northern Chilean mining region of Antofagasta have the highest per capita income in the country. But some 4,000 local families continue to live in slums - a reflection of one of the most marked situations of inequality in this country.
Africa Sees U.N. Climate Conference as “Court Case” for the Continent
- Inter Press Service
DAR ES SALAAM, Sep 10 (IPS) - As the clock ticks towards the United Nations climate change conference (COP21) in Paris in December, African experts, policy-makers and civil society groups plan to come to the negotiation table prepared for a legal approach to avoid mistakes made during formulation of the Kyoto Protocol.
Strong Climate Deal Needed to Combat Future Refugee Crises
- Inter Press Service
G20 Finance Ministers Committed to Sustainable Development
- Inter Press Service
BERLIN, Sep 09 (IPS) - Finance ministers and central bank governors of the world's 20 major economies, accounting for 66 percent of world population, have pledged to "promote an enabling global economic environment for developing countries as they pursue their sustainable development agendas".
In and Behind the Trenches Against ISIS
- Inter Press Service
KIRKUK, Iraq, Sep 09 (IPS) - Reminders of the last occupants of camp K1 in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk are only visible on the murals at the main gate leading into the compound: Iraqi soldiers saluting the flag, pointing their weapons or being cheered on by grateful families.
Young Cubans Look Forward to Greater Openness to Technology
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Sep 09 (IPS) - Young people in Cuba are anxiously awaiting an acceleration of the informatisation of society, which is apparently moving ahead at the same pace as the current reform process, "without haste, but without pause," according to the authorities.
Opinion: A Call for Public Participation in National Budget Processes
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Sep 09 (IPS) - After forming governments, authorising them to tax us and to spend on our collective needs, do we remain watchful about our money? No, we don't. Not even when we know governments borrow from money markets on the strength of the tax fund created, often beyond our means to repay. Why?
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