Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1423
Arab Spring Brings Some Sour Fruits
- Inter Press Service
Recent shifts in the Middle East and North Africa have presented several economic challenges such as high unemployment, an exodus of migrants from Libya and a reduction of tourism revenues. Given that economic discontent played a vital role in the Arab uprisings, economic growth has become vital to sustain the fruit of revolution.
Development Deficit Compounds Indian Sundarbans Crisis
- Inter Press Service
Sahara Bibi, a 47-year-old poor Muslim woman living on one of the climate- impacted islands of Eastern India’s fragile Sundarbans archipelago in West Bengal state, was forced to pull her two young sons out of school and send one of them to the Southern state of Kerala to earn a decent income.
Malaysia Weighs Minimum Wage Policy
- Inter Press Service
Malaysia plans to introduce a national minimum wage for its workers against stiff opposition from employers and manufacturers who warn that such a policy would shut down nearly 200,000 small and medium enterprise (SME) units.
Can’t Help Helping Refugees
- Inter Press Service
It’s 10 am on Saturday morning and a group of migrants is clustered round the entrance to the Migrant Clothes Association in the Calais city centre, eating breakfast provided by the association. Inside, the warehouse is stacked with blankets, tents, trainers and clothes. Some of these will be distributed later by the association’s workers.
Donors Damaging Palestinian Economy
- Inter Press Service
The latest Work Bank report on the Palestinian economy fuels the row on institutional viability precisely as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas considers renewing his statehood bid.
Mind the Women’s Business
- Inter Press Service
'We want to hear each others’ stories on how we have coped with changes, how we have got to where we are now and thus how we can be an inspiration to others,' says Anna Loa Olafsdottir, one of the people behind a group of women in southwest Iceland who call themselves SKASS.
Saving Mothers' Lives one Midwife at a Time in South Sudan
- Inter Press Service
Martha Borete Angela’s gaze sinks to the ground as she admits neither of her two children was delivered by a midwife or doctor. The 28-year-old South Sudanese woman shared this fact in front of her classmates: first-year students in a programme for midwives at the Catholic Health Training Institute in Wau, a city in the western part of the country.
Tale of Two Approaches - the WTO Torn Asunder?
- Inter Press Service
Trade envoys of India, Brazil, and South Africa have warned industrialised countries not to hijack the Doha multilateral trade negotiations by adopting the controversial plurilateral approach to liberalise trade in services.
Tale of Two Approaches - the WTO Torn Asunder?
- Inter Press Service
Trade envoys of India, Brazil, and South Africa have warned industrialised countries not to hijack the Doha multilateral trade negotiations by adopting the controversial plurilateral approach to liberalise trade in services.
Counting the Cost at 2,600 Litres of Water a T-Shirt
- Inter Press Service
The share of organic cotton is increasing in an unstable cotton market, thanks to big European retailers like H&M and C&A who've jumped on the bandwagon of offering organic clothing at a low price. But whether this benefits the farmer is another matter.
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