Global Issues
News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 338
Reforming the International Financial System
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 13 (IPS) - When we fail to act on lessons from a crisis, we risk exposing ourselves to another one. The 1997-¬1998 East Asian crises provided major lessons for international financial reform. Two decades later, we appear not to have done much about them. The way the West first responded to the 2008 global financial crisis should have reminded us to do more. But besides accumulating more reserves, Southeast Asia has not done much else.
2 Billion People Don’t Have Access To Clean Water, Opens up Fissures of Inequality
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 13 (IPS) - More than two billion people lack access to clean and safe drinking water, according to a new report released by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
We Have to Reclaim the Public Policy Space for SDGs
- Inter Press Service
BONN, Jul 13 (IPS) - At the High-Level Political Forum which currently takes place at the United Nations in New York several events, for instance a SDG Business Forum, are devoted to the critical role of business and public-private partnerships (PPPs) in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Argentina Plans Billions of Dollars in Railway Projects
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Jul 12 (IPS) - Development in Argentina in the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century was closely tied to that of the railway. The eighth largest country in the world, Argentina's economy grew through exporting agricultural and livestock products, and the railways were key to founding centres of population and transporting goods to the ports.
Three-Zone Biosecurity Offers New Hope to Indonesian Farmers
- Inter Press Service
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Jul 10 (IPS) - Poultry farmer Bambang Sutrisno Setiawan had long heard about biosecurity but never gave serious thought to it, even when the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 forced him to cull thousands of his layer chickens in 2003 and 2009.
Mexico’s Methane Emissions Threaten the Environment
- Inter Press Service
G20’s Record Does Not Inspire Hope
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 07 (IPS) - The G20 leaders meeting in Hamburg, Germany, on 7-8 July comes almost a decade after the grouping's elevation to meeting at the heads of state/government level. Previously, the G20 had been an informal forum of finance ministers and central bank governors from advanced and emerging economies created in 1999 following the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis.
An African Atlas for Youth and Sustainable Development
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 07 (IPS) - As its population changes, Africa has the potential to transform its society into one that is productive and prosperous, according to a new report.
U.S. “Dumping” Dark Meat Chicken on African Markets
- Inter Press Service
MPUMALANGA, South Africa, Jul 06 (IPS) - The United States and Europe's preference for white meat is hurting Africa's poultry industry, says Luc Smalle, manager at the agro firm Rossgro in South Africa's Mpumalanga area.
The Asian Financial Crisis -- 20 Years Later
- Inter Press Service
PENANG, Malaysia, Jul 05 (IPS) - It's been 20 years since the Asian financial crisis struck in July 1997. Since then there has been an even bigger global financial crisis, centred in the United States starting in 2008. Will there be another crisis in the near future?
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