Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 947
Poverty and Fear Still Rankle, Ten Years After the Tsunami
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Dec 26 (IPS) - It took just 30 minutes for the killer waves to leave 350,000 dead and half a million displaced. Less than one hour for 100,000 houses to be destroyed and 200,000 people to be stripped of their livelihoods.
For Zimbabweans, Universal Education May be an Unattainable Goal
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Dic 24 (IPS) - Zimbabwe boasts of one of the highest rates of literacy across Africa but, but without free primary education, achieving universal primary education here may remain a pipe dream, educationists say.
Years in the Making, Arms Trade Treaty Enters into Force
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dic 24 (IPS) - A new Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) beginning on Dec. 24 represents a historic moment in global efforts to keep weapons proliferation in check.
Falling Oil Prices Threaten Fragile African Economies
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dic 23 (IPS) - The sharp decline in world petroleum prices - hailed as a bonanza to millions of motorists in the United States - is threatening to undermine the fragile economies of several African countries dependent on oil for their sustained growth.
Q&A: "The Economy Needs to Serve Us and Not the Other Way Around"
- Inter Press Service
SEATTLE, Dic 23 (IPS) - Since his college days, John Schmitt says, he's been "very interested in questions of economic justice, economic inequality."
School Dropout Rate Soars for Afghan Refugees
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Dic 22 (IPS) - "Our children quitting school is the greatest pain we have suffered during our troublesome lives here," says Multan Shah, a vegetable-seller in a shantytown of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, one of Pakistan's four provinces.
OPINION: Reflections on Corruption and Political Regeneration in Spain
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Dic 22 (IPS) - Political and institutional corruption has become the main concern of Spanish citizens after unemployment and the dramatic social consequences of the economic crisis, according to opinion polls.
Seeking Closure, Bougainville Confronts Ghosts of Civil War
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Australia, Dic 21 (IPS) - Thirteen years after the peace agreement which ended a decade-long civil war in Bougainville, an autonomous island region of 300,000 people located east of the Papua New Guinean (PNG) mainland in the southwest Pacific Islands, trauma and grief continue to affect families and communities where the fate of the many missing remains unresolved.
‘Cyclone College’ Raises Hopes, Dreams of India’s Vulnerable Fisherfolk
- Inter Press Service
NEMMELI, India, Dic 20 (IPS) - Ten years have now passed, but Raghu Raja, a 27-year-old fisherman from the coastal village of Nemmeli in southern India's Kachipuram district, still clearly remembers the day he escaped the tsunami.
What the U.S. Should Learn from Russia’s Collapse
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 20 (IPS) - After months of whispered warnings, Russia's economic troubles made global headlines when its currency collapsed halfway through December. Amid the tumbling price of oil, the ruble has fallen to record lows, bringing the country to its most serious economic crisis since the late 1990s.
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