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DEVELOPMENT: U.N. Chief Looks Beyond 2015 Deadline
- Inter Press Service
As more than 140 world leaders began a three-day anti-poverty summit meeting Monday, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon looked far beyond the 2015 deadline for sustainable development the world is desperately in need of.
MILLENNIUM GOALS: A Question of Political Will
- Inter Press Service
'I am not pessimistic, but I am realistic. Under present conditions and the prevailing system of world government, the Millennium Development Goals simply cannot be achieved,' Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Abelardo Moreno said in an interview with IPS.
South Urged not to Replicate Old, Unequal Models
- Inter Press Service
South-South cooperation is set to be a key issue during the three-day summit beginning today that will bring together some 140 world leaders to reaffirm their commitment to achieving the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.
LATIN AMERICA: Crisis Not a Thing of the Past for NGOs
- Inter Press Service
The countries of Latin America, with few exceptions, have weathered the global recession of the past two years relatively well, while they simultaneously continued the process of shedding neoliberal policies in their most fundamentalist form. But in financial terms, non-governmental organisations have not fared so well.
Haitian Women Struggle to Keep Hope Alive
- Inter Press Service
'I'm going to do everything possible to raise my daughter. My daughter is my future. And I can see my future in her,' says Mirlene Saint Juste, a rice merchant in the Opoto market of Gonaives in northern Haiti.
THAILAND: Red Shirts Bring Politics of Discontent Back to the Streets
- Inter Press Service
After a lapse of four months, Pukkie Mathika was finally able to break her silence, finding her way back to a busy intersection in the heart of an up-market shopping district here in Bangkok to rage against the Thai government.
POLITICS-AFGHANISTAN: For Refugees, Polls are Far and Near
- Inter Press Service
Afghan voters just went to national parliamentary elections, but refugees from that country here in neighbouring Pakistan could only rue the fact that they have been left out of this vote.
AFRICA: Services Should Only be Liberalised If Properly Regulated
- Inter Press Service
With African countries' trade remaining inordinately dependent on natural resources exports, their economies could benefit from liberalisation of trade in services but only as long as proper domestic regulatory frameworks are put in place, some trade experts argue.
CHINA: Second Richest Plays Poor
- Inter Press Service
As China basks in international praise for its spectacular economic transformation over the last 30 years, some shadow sides of this story of triumph have begun to emerge.
INDIA: Jatropha Boom Yields Tough Lessons
- Inter Press Service
With a gas-guzzler of an economy, India had been spending tens of billions of dollars annually to import petroleum. And so its 2009 policy on biofuels mandated that by 2017, India would have enough biofuel production to cover at least 20 percent of the country’s oil consumption.
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