Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1499
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.
SRI LANKA: Alive or Beheaded this Maid is a Heroine
- Inter Press Service
Will Rizana Fathima Nafeek return to this poverty-ridden coastal village in Sri Lanka alive and in one piece? Or will the beheading sentence passed on her by a Saudi Arabian court in 2007 be finally carried out?
CUBA: Co-operatives Set to Expand
- Inter Press Service
The creation of co-operatives forms part of the current 'updating' of the Cuban economy, even though no official information has been provided about the expansion of this form of business management, which has already been tested, with mixed results, in agriculture.
ZIMBABWE: Rural Women Banking By Mobile Phone
- Inter Press Service
Collecting the monthly subscriptions for her co-operative has always been a headache for Thelma Nare, 41. This is because Nare lives in Tshitshi, Plumtree in rural Zimbabwe, about 60 kilometres away from the humdrum of the nearest town centre where banks are located.
U.S.: Divide Emerges over Bounds of Occupy Protests
- Inter Press Service
On Nov. 2, the day of Occupy Oakland's General Strike, the streets were filled with chants and music and the sounds of people speaking in the many tongues of Oakland residents.
U.S.: Divide Emerges over Bounds of Occupy Protests
- Inter Press Service
On Nov. 2, the day of Occupy Oakland's General Strike, the streets were filled with chants and music and the sounds of people speaking in the many tongues of Oakland residents.
China Will Need Many More Singles Parties
- Inter Press Service
In a country of 180 million single people and a growing gender imbalance, tens of thousands of people across China went looking for love on Singles’ Day Nov. 11. But events on the day may only have helped point to the continuing and growing difficulty of being single.
Q&A: 'Grabbing of Drylands is a Serious Concern'
- Inter Press Service
Designated Drylands Ambassador, United Nations Convention for Combating Desertification (UNCCD), at its 10th Conference of the Parties (COP10) in South Korea in October, Dennis Garrity is mandated to raise awareness of land degradation.
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