Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1468
KENYA: Inflation Deflates New Year Joy
- Inter Press Service
Kenyans entered the New Year with less pomp and colour that has characterised previous new year celebrations. Due to the harsh economic situation and the fact that it is time for most students to go back to school, many families shied away from entertainment places to save that elusive shilling for their school-going children.
SUDAN: No Clear Studies on Impacts of Merowe Dam
- Inter Press Service
The multi-billion dollar Merowe Dam on the Nile River more than doubled Sudan's electricity supply, but its environmental impacts still remain unknown to the public and to the communities it affects.
GUATEMALA: Native People Suffer Racism in Employment
- Inter Press Service
'There's a big difference in the way indigenous people and mestizos (people of mixed ancestry) are treated. We are not paid the same wages for the same work,' Higinio Pu, an activist with the native group Waxaquib Noj, which means 'wisdom' in the Maya Quiché language, told IPS.
KAZAKHSTAN: Give Them Bread, But Not So Much
- Inter Press Service
Kazakhstan, intent on diversifying its economy away from oil and mining, has extended its cereal acreage by a third in the past ten years, doubled the value of its grain harvest. It has eradicated rural poverty in the north, the country's breadbasket.
JAPAN: New Year Brings Economic Aftershocks
- Inter Press Service
Hideo Sato, 47, and his family escaped to this snowy city 200 km from the radiation emitting Fuksuhima power plant that was struck by a massive earthquake-driven tsunami on Mar. 11.
INDIA: Fighting for a Less Corrupt New Year
- Inter Press Service
After failing to muster support in parliament for the passage of a watered- down anti-corruption bill, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh must find ways to satisfy opposition parties, allies and civil society that his United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government is serious about curbing graft in the New Year.
SOMALIA: Rebuilding Among the Rubble
- Inter Press Service
With vehicles and donkey carts packed with their belongings, Somalis are returning, four years after they fled, to their partially standing, bullet-scarred and mortar-shelled neighbourhoods in former Al-Shabaab controlled areas of Mogadishu.
SWAZILAND: Small Loans for Young Entrepreneurs to Help Fight Crisis
- Inter Press Service
While the Swazi economy is teetering on the brink of collapse, the government is banking on the future by providing funds to help young people set up businesses.
NIGERIA: Not Everyone Pleased with New Vitamin A-Fortified Cassava
- Inter Press Service
Using hybridisation and selective breeding, researchers in Nigeria have developed three new yellow varieties of cassava, a staple crop in much of Africa, which they say will help fight malnutrition caused by vitamin A deficiency in the region.
The Oil That Comes in from the Cold
- Inter Press Service
Thanks to soaring oil prices and new technology, oil producers in the hot sands of Arabia, the torrid Niger delta or the humid plains of the Orinoco are facing new competition from rivals in the frozen North.
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