News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 225
COVID Crisis Challenges in People with Disabilities and Hansen’s Disease
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Aug 10 (IPS) - Even during the best of times, unfortunately members of the global community who have special needs are marginalized and often treated as social outcasts. The COVID crisis which has been raging for over the better part of the year 2020 has posed additional barriers and challenges for these already disenfranchised individuals.
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Aug 10 (IPS) - COVID-19 has become a scourge affecting all levels of human society – morals, behaviour, human interaction, economy and politics. The pandemic has wrecked havoc on our way of being and its impact will remain huge and all-encompassing. It is not only affecting our globally shared existence, it is also changing what has been called "the little life", i.e. our own way of thinking and being, our personal life situation and the one of those close to us; people we love and depend upon – our friends and family.
Building Resilience in Pacific Education
- Inter Press Service
Aug 10 (IPS) - School as we all know it hasn't changed that much in over a century. However, in the face of new threats to health and wellbeing, the future of those familiar structures that bring teachers and students together is starting to be questioned.
Warming Temperatures & Decades of Oil Spills Cause Irreversible Damage to the Persian Gulf
- Inter Press Service
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Aug 10 (IPS) - The Persian Gulf is one of the most strategic waterways in the world and is also one of the most polluted.
According to estimates by experts, pollution levels in the Persian Gulf are 47 times higher than the world's average and are steadily increasing.
As Latin America Looks to a COVID Recovery, It Will Need to Tackle its Growing Middle-Class Angst
- Inter Press Service
Aug 07 (IPS) - While COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc across Latin America, its governments are developing policies which they hope will provide for a rapid economic recovery when the pandemic wanes.
Multilateral Bank Intermediation Must Help Developing Countries’ Recovery
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 07 (IPS) - International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has warned that developing countries would need more than the earlier estimated US$2.5 trillion to provide relief to affected families and businesses and expedite economic recovery.
The New Poor Post-pandemic: Time for Cushioning the Most Vulnerable in Southeast Asia
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Aug 04 (IPS) - After decades of impressive growth, for the first time, Southeast Asia is experiencing a drop in measured human development. The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic will likely take months to reveal itself and years to put right. Yet, a legacy of mobilizing under constraints is leading Southeast Asia's pandemic response.
Address Malnutrition with Food Insecurity
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug 04 (IPS) - The 2020 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, issued by the Food and Agriculture Organization and its United Nations partners in mid-July, reports that chronic hunger continued to increase to 690 million worldwide in 2019, 60 million more than in 2014.
With Proper Investment in Youth, Kenya’s Potential for Progress Is Unlimited
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 03 (IPS) - Africa's demographic boom has been hailed as its biggest promise for transforming the continent's economic and social outcomes, but only if the right investments are made to prepare its youthful population for tomorrow's world.
Why the African Free Trade Area Could be the Game-Changer for the Continent's Economies
- Inter Press Service
Aug 02 (IPS) - Most economists see structural transformation as one of the main routes to Africa's sustainable development. What it means is changing the share of agriculture, manufacturing and services in an economy. It is a central aim of the African Union's Agenda 2063.
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