Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1406
Europe Loses Billions to Tax Evasion
- Inter Press Service
Swiss banks are facing prosecution in several European countries, accused of complicity in tax evasion and money laundering schemes, especially with French, German, and wealthy Greek citizens.
Bangladesh Cuts Maternal Deaths With Affordability
- Inter Press Service
The Aditmari Maternity Centre (AMC) is unpretentious but hygienic, and its staff of paramedics welcomes pregnant women from the poor farming villages of this district, 375 km northwest of Dhaka.
/CORRECTED REPEAT**/: Listening to the Hum of Tilling Machinery in the Sierra Leone Countryside
- Inter Press Service
In the eastern Sierra Leonean community of Lambayama, rice paddies are carved far into the landscape before being abruptly halted by distant hills. Aside from a paved road that draws a grey line through the green, swampy valley, it looks much as it did a century ago.
Project to Regularise Rural Land Tenure in Northeast Brazilian State of Piauí
- Inter Press Service
Despite the abundance of natural resources on its more than 25 million hectares of land, including six million hectares ideal for agriculture, the northeast Brazilian state of Piauí has some of the country’s lowest socioeconomic indicators.
Multilaterals Warned Not to Go Too Far, Too Fast in Myanmar
- Inter Press Service
As multilateral lending agencies prepare to seriously re- engage with Myanmar for the first time in decades, observers at the spring meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) are warning that a poor understanding of ground conditions in the country could jeopardise many of the early opportunities created by government-initiated reforms.
Elephant in Spain’s Royal Counting House
- Inter Press Service
The budget for maintaining the Spanish royal household, and the use made of these public funds by King Juan Carlos, are fuelling ongoing debate as Spain endures a severe economic crisis accompanied by severe cuts in social spending and soaring unemployment.
Afghan Journalists Strain Against Gags
- Inter Press Service
Afghanistan is quickly becoming one of the deadliest countries in the world for foreign and local journalists. In the last decade alone, 16 journalists have been killed on the job and so far no one has been brought to justice for these murders.
Caribbean to Take Strong Stance at Rio+20 Summit
- Inter Press Service
The mandate will be very clear. Caribbean Community (CARICOM) delegates are going to Brazil in June for the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development determined to show that it will not be business as usual.
Western Ghana’s Fisherfolk Starve Amid Algae Infestation
- Inter Press Service
Sam Kojo stands in a thigh-high pile of brown seaweed that blankets a beach in western Ghana. Behind him, a decomposing mound of Sargassum stretches down the shore past the fishing village of Beyin.
Western Ghana’s Fisherfolk Starve Amid Algae Infestation
- Inter Press Service
Sam Kojo stands in a thigh-high pile of brown seaweed that blankets a beach in western Ghana. Behind him, a decomposing mound of Sargassum stretches down the shore past the fishing village of Beyin.
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