Global Issues
News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 320
China’s Mass Market Adopts Mobile Payments
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Jan 23 (IPS) - China's mass-market adoption of mobile payments in recent years has stunned observers. In 2016, more than 500 million Chinese used mobile payments and transacted 97 billion times on nonbank mobile apps.
PPPs Likely to Undermine Public Health Commitments
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 17 (IPS) - The United Nations Agenda 2030 for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is being touted in financial circles as offering huge investment opportunities requiring trillions of dollars. In 67 low- and middle-income countries, achieving SDG 3 — healthy lives and well-being for all, at all ages — is estimated to require new investments increasing over time, from an initial $134 billion annually to $371 billion yearly by 2030, according to recent estimates by the World Health Organization (WHO) reported in The Lancet.
Expansion of Soy Resurrects Key Railway Line in Brazil
- Inter Press Service
Sustainable Energy Critical for Achieving Overall Goals of Paris Climate Agreement
- Inter Press Service
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, Jan 15 (IPS) - The Paris Agreement ushered in a new global approach to climate change. At the core of this agreement are the Nationally Determined Contributions. We are now implementing these pledges.
Tocantins, a River of Many Dams in Central Brazil
- Inter Press Service
PALMAS and PORTO NACIONAL, Brazil, Jan 12 (IPS) - Tocantins, the newest of Brazil's 26 states, which was created in 1988 to seek its own paths to development in central Brazil, fell into the common plight of expanding borders, based on soy and hydroelectricity.
Argentina Pursues the Lithium Dream
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Jan 11 (IPS) - The government of Mauricio Macri dreams of Argentina becoming the world leader in lithium production. But it does not seem so clear that this aspiration, underpinned by the interest of multinational corporations, would also drive the development of local communities.
Can Uganda Reduce Financial Exclusion to 5% in 5 Years?
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Jan 10 (IPS) - In October 2017, Uganda launched a new five-year National Financial Inclusion Strategy. The strategy seeks to reduce financial exclusion from 15 to 5 percent by 2022 by ensuring that all Ugandans have access to and use a broad range of quality and affordable financial services.
The data revolution should not leave women and girls behind
- Inter Press Service
OTTAWA, Canada, Jan 09 (IPS) - If there is one political principle that has been constant throughout the history of human civilization it is the fact that land is power. This is something that is particularly true, and often painfully so, for women who farm in Africa.
Clean Energy Sources Manage to Cut Electricity Bill in Chile
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Jan 09 (IPS) - A 75 percent drop in electricity rates, thanks to a quadrupled clean generation capacity, is one of the legacies to be left in Chile by the administration of Michelle Bachelet, who steps down on Mar. 11.
Policy Support Gap for “Climate-Smart” Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Jan 09 (IPS) - Conditioned that ploughing is the sure way to produce crops, Zimbabwean farmer Handrixious Zvomarima surprised himself by trying a different method. He planted cowpea seeds directly without tilling the land. It worked.
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