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INTERVIEW: the top diplomat shepherding the General Assembly through its 75th year
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Sep 14 (IPS) - The Turkish diplomat elected to be the president of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly, Volkan Bozkir, is taking on the role as the Organization grapples with an unprecedented pandemic, and questions surrounding the future direction it should take.
The Debt the Government Does Not Want to Recognize
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Sep 11 (IPS) - The national occupation and employment survey prepared by INEGI, with figures updated to July 2020, shows an improvement that has occurred in the last two months. However, the employment situation, compared with the data existing before the pandemic still shows serious problems:
TikTok, Trump and the Need for a Digital Non-Aligned Movement
- Inter Press Service
CAMBRIDGE, United States, Sep 09 (IPS) - Recent weeks have seen a dramatic escalation in the U.S.' stance towards tech companies from the People's Republic of China (PRC). After hounding the telecommunications company Huawei for years, the social networking app TikTok is the latest Chinese company to enter the firing line.
Failing Africa’s Farmers, Starving the Continent
- Inter Press Service
BOSTON, Sep 08 (IPS) - African organizations are demanding answers after a recent report found that Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) strategies have failed spectacularly to meet its goals of increasing productivity and incomes for millions of small-scale farming households by 2020 while reducing food insecurity on the continent.
Financing Economic Recovery
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Sep 08 (IPS) - As the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the length and breadth of Asia and the Pacific, finance ministries are continuing their relentless efforts to inject trillions of dollars for emergency health responses and fiscal packages. With continued lockdown measures and restricted borders, economic rebound seems uncertain.
UN’s First-Ever Food Systems Summit to Fight Impending Emergency
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 08 (IPS) - Agnes Kalibata, UN Special Envoy for 2021 Food Systems Summit and a former Rwandan Minister for Agriculture, has been tasked with leading the first-ever UN Food Systems Summit, on a date to be determined next year. In an interview with UN News, she outlined her vision for a transformed international system that is more resilient, fairer, and less harmful to the planet.
Regressive Taxation Must Be Reversed
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sep 08 (IPS) - With many in the world experiencing declining living standards, there has been growing frustration. Many hope that progressive taxation will improve things. While some economies once had progressive tax systems, recent decades have seen regression.
COVID-19: Lessons from the Losses
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 07 (IPS) - If countries considered Universal Health Coverage (UHC) a central policy in their health systems, the COVID-19 has surely demonstrated the need for its urgent and widespread roll out. The pandemic has upended world systems in a manner that no scientists or sophisticated global intelligence could have foreseen.
COVID-19: Without Help, Low-Income Developing Countries Risk a Lost Decade
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 03 (IPS) - While the COVID-19 crisis is sending shockwaves around the globe, low-income developing countries (LIDCs) are in a particularly difficult position to respond. LIDCs have both been hit hard by external shocks and are suffering severe domestic contractions from the spread of the virus and the lockdown measures to contain it. At the same time, limited resources and weak institutions constrain the capacity of many LIDC governments to support their economies.
“Hidden” Costs of Our Food Systems
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Sep 03 (IPS) - Five years after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda we are far from achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). According to the recently launched SOFI Report (The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020), we are not on track to eradicate poverty, hunger and malnutrition. On the contrary, with the current trends, the global number of undernourished people in 2030 would exceed 840 million. Moreover, WHO has reported alarming rates of overweight and obesity, globally affecting 39% and 13% of the adult population, respectively.
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