Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 979
Kenya’s Ogiek Women Conquer Cultural Barriers to Support their Families
- Inter Press Service
NAKURU COUNTY, Kenya, Sep 22 (IPS) - Just two years ago, Mary Ondolo, a 50-year-old mother of nine from Kenya's marginalised, hunter-gatherer community, the Ogiek, used to live in a grass thatched, mud house for decades.
Only the Crazy and Economists Believe Growth is Endless
- Inter Press Service
LEIPZIG, Sep 22 (IPS) - From the mid-20th century onwards, economic growth has come to count as a self-evident goal in economic policies and GDP to be seen as the most important index for measuring economic activities.
Half a Century of Struggle Against Underdevelopment
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Sep 22 (IPS) - The idea of creating Inter Press Service (IPS) arose in the early 1960s in response to awareness that a vacuum existed in the world of journalism, which had two basic aspects.
OPINION: Invest in Young People to Harness Africa’s Demographic Dividend
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Sep 21 (IPS) - Different issues will be competing for the attention of different African leaders attending the 69th United Nations General Assembly Special Session on International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Beyond 2014 in New York on Sep 22.
Boosting the Natural Disaster Immunity of Caribbean Hospitals
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Sep 21 (IPS) - When floods overwhelmed the Eastern Caribbean in December last year, St. Vincent's new smart hospital, completed just a few months earlier, stood the test of "remaining functional during and immediately after a natural disaster."
Africa Seeks Commitment to Adaptation in Climate Deal
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Sep 21 (IPS) - It is a critical time for international climate change negotiations. By December 2015, world leaders are due to decide on an international climate change agreement covering all countries that will take effect in 2020.
Environmental Funding Bypasses Indigenous Communities
- Inter Press Service
BALI, Indonesia, Sep 20 (IPS) - When she talks about the forests in her native Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, Maridiana Deren's facial expression changes. The calm, almost shy person is transformed into an emotionally charged woman, her fists clench and she stares wide-eyed at whoever is listening to her.
Will Governments Keep Their Promises on the Human Right to Water?
- Inter Press Service
AHMEDABAD, India, Sep 20 (IPS) - It was a dramatic moment at the United Nations when it voted in 2010 to affirm water and sanitation as a human right.
Surprisingly Equal, Surprisingly Unequal
- Inter Press Service
COLOGNE, Sep 20 (IPS) - Thomas Piketty, a French economist who works on wealth and income inequality, has triggered a debate on the distribution of income and wealth in many countries. This is no small issue because views on income inequality and concomitant redistributive preferences are crucial to the design of tax and transfer systems.
U.N. Urged to Reaffirm Reproductive Rights in Post-2015 Agenda
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 19 (IPS) - The U.N.'s post-2015 development agenda has been described as the most far-reaching and comprehensive development-related endeavour ever undertaken by the world body.
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