Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1498
No Aloha for APEC
- Inter Press Service
As U.S. President Barack Obama sought to make headway on the first significant free trade agreement since NAFTA, a week of demonstrations protested the move.
Q&A: Cuba Advancing Towards a Dengue Vaccine
- Inter Press Service
'We don’t like to talk about our specific goals,' says Cuban virologist María Guadalupe Guzmán, as a subtle way to avoid going into too much detail about the research she is heading up to develop a dengue vaccine.
CLIMATE CHANGE: A Threat to Food Security in Africa's Basins
- Inter Press Service
While Africa has successfully avoided conflict over shared water courses, it will need greater diplomacy to keep the peace as new research warns that climate change will have an effect on food productivity.
World’s Biggest Hydropower Scheme Will Leave Africans in the Dark
- Inter Press Service
South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo have signed an agreement to build a major hydroelectric power project, which is said to bring electricity to more than half of the continent’s 900 million people. But economic analysts warn foreign investors will prevent the grid from benefiting the general public.
MALAWI: Water Promises Light for Isolated Community
- Inter Press Service
In just a few weeks, seven villages that had expected to remain 'in the dark forever' will finally have electricity, courtesy of a small hydroelectric power plant on Lichenya River, one of the major rivers on the eastern slopes of Mulanje Mountain in southern Malawi.
'Microcredit is No Magic Wand Against Poverty’
- Inter Press Service
While microcredit remains the best tool available to address poverty it is no magic wand and can only be a part of the larger development process, say experts gathered in this historic Spanish city.
COLOMBIA: Perils and Lessons of U.S. Aid
- Inter Press Service
A new report has highlighted a connection - and not always a positive one - between U.S. foreign aid to Colombia and Mexico and violence and crime rates in those countries, pointing out that U.S. policy toward Mexico deserves careful application of lessons learned from the aid the U.S. has supplied Colombia since 2000.
ECONOMY-PORTUGAL: Side Effects of IMF Medicine
- Inter Press Service
A European Union economic forecast for 2012 indicates Portugal is the EU country that will grow the least.
Mexican Women Demand Climate Justice
- Inter Press Service
After two weeks without water, the taps finally started running again in the home of Araceli Salazar and her neighbours in the poor, crowded neighbourhood of Iztapalapa on the east side of the Mexican capital.
TAJIKISTAN: Dushanbe's Plane Caper Not Flying with the Kremlin
- Inter Press Service
Memo to leaders of Central Asian nations that lack abundant energy resources: messing with Moscow usually backfires.
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