News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 241
Fisherfolk Fix Both Food and Climate by Closing Fishing Grounds
- Inter Press Service
JAKARTA, Mar 23 (IPS) - Samsul sounded very happy last Monday (Mar. 16) when recounting his experience of catching crabs worth more than $60 in a single day.
Fighting Coronavirus: It’s Time to Invest in Universal Public Health
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK and LONDON, Mar 23 (IPS) - Austerity policies pushed by international financial institutions have weakened public health systems, despite current financial support packages, condemning many people to die.
Women & Climate: Planting a Global Forest in a Connected World
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK and TORONTO, Mar 23 (IPS) - In January of this year, Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, shocked much of the world when they announced they would be stepping down from their roles as senior royals.
State Intervention Necessary to Overcome Covid-19 Threats
- Inter Press Service
BERLIN and KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 19 (IPS) - It is now clear that most East Asian government responses to novel coronavirus or Covid-19 outbreaks have been effective. In Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan, the number infected have remained relatively low despite their proximity and vulnerability, while containment in China and South Korea has been impressive.
Use Stimulus Packages for Longer Term Progress
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Mar 18 (IPS) - The coronavirus pandemic seems to have finally forced governments around the world to ditch their obsession (at least for the moment) with delivering budget surplus. As stock markets tumble, stimulus measures, worth billions of dollars, are announced to boost investor confidence and consumer spending to keep economies running.
Share Buybacks Enable Predatory Value Extraction
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Mar 17 (IPS) - ‘Getting government out of the way', the neoliberal ‘free market' mantra, was supposed to boost private investment. Instead, business investment has declined as a consequence. Many economies now seem incapable of making much needed investments to sustain growth, apparently due to ‘capital allocation' problems.
I Am Generation Equality: Storytelling for Equality
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Mar 16 (IPS) - When you flip through grade one Bangla school textbooks there is very little written about the progress women have made in Bangladesh since the Beijing Conference for Women in 1995.
New reforms needed to tackle Egypt’s economic challenges, claims TRENDS study
- Inter Press Service
ABU DHABI, Mar 16 (IPS) - The IMF-supported economic reforms program launched in 2016 succeeded in improving almost macroeconomic indicators for the Egyptian economy yet a new phase of reforms is needed to tackle the remaining problems on the supply side, a new study has claimed.
Global Economic Consequences of COVID-19
- Inter Press Service
DENVER, Colorado, Mar 16 (IPS) - The panic resulting from the events starting with the deaths in Wuhan keeps spreading globally faster than the spreading of the virus itself. Quite apart from the immediate health dangers, now a new economic danger looms large globally.
We are facing the prospects of a deep and lasting global recession regardless of the health policy and economic policy measures taken by China, the US and other countries unless there is timely global cooperation and coordination.
What will be the global economic impact of COVID-19 if swift and effective action is not taken globally? Is there a way to find out through some kind of rigorous model-based economic analysis?
Fight, Not Flight, Must Be the Strategy for Flattening the COVID-19 Curve
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 16 (IPS) - The number of coronavirus cases in Kenya has jumped to three after the government confirmed two more cases. President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced a raft of proactive measures to prevent the spread of the virus.
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