Global Issues
News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 502
Gas and Sun Light the Way for Energy Industry in El Salvador
- Inter Press Service
SAN SALVADOR, Jul 29 (IPS) - El Salvador is making steady progress towards diversifying its energy sources, with a plan to bolster the use of cleaner sources and achieve a substantial change in its energy mix by 2018.
Trade Facilitation Will Support African Industrialisation
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Jul 29 (IPS) - In the 1960s, there were high hopes for the development of the newly-independent sub-Saharan African countries but these hopes were quickly dashed following a series of shocks which began in the mid-70s, with the first oil price spikes, followed by a severe decline in growth and increase in poverty in the 80s and early 90s.
Food – Thou Shall Not Waste
- Inter Press Service
LUCCA, Italy, Jul 29 (IPS) - "Only two years ago, the soup kitchen was serving 50 meals a day. Today the number has almost doubled and, what is even more worrying, we have started receiving families with children," says Donatella Turri, director of the Caritas Diocese of Lucca.
Human Development - Latin America Less Than Halfway There
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Jul 28 (IPS) - Construction worker Leobardo Gómez has been out of work for nine months since he slipped and fell to the street on a construction site in the Mexican capital in October.
Antigua Weighs High Cost of Fossil Fuels
- Inter Press Service
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, Jul 28 (IPS) - Caught between its quest to grow the economy, create jobs and cut electricity costs, and the negative impacts associated with building an oil refinery, the Antigua and Barbuda government is looking to a mix of clean energy and fossil fuels to address its energy needs.
Outlawing Polygamy to Combat Gender Inequalities, Domestic Violence in Papua New Guinea
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Jul 28 (IPS) - New legislation recently passed in the southwest Pacific Island state of Papua New Guinea (PNG) outlawing polygamy has been welcomed by experts in the country as an initial step forward in the battle against high rates of domestic violence, gender inequality and the spread of AIDS.
A Carrot Is a Carrot – or Is It?
- Inter Press Service
BUDAPEST, Jul 28 (IPS) - Food security is often thought of as a question of diversifying supply and being able to move food through areas plagued by local scarcity, relying on the global economic system – including trade and transport – as the basis for operations.
OPINION: The Affinity Between Iraqi Sunni Extremists and the Rulers of Saudi Arabia
- Inter Press Service
LEIDEN, Netherlands, Jul 27 (IPS) - Which story line sounds the more credible – that linking the rebel movement ISIS (the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) to policies pursued by Iran or that linking the Sunni extremist force to Iran's adversary Saudi Arabia?
South Stymies North in Global Trade Talks
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Jul 26 (IPS) - A group of developing countries brought a tectonic shift at the World Trade Organization on Friday by turning the tables against the industrialised countries, when they offered a positive trade agenda to expeditiously arrive at a permanent solution for food security and other development issues, before adopting the protocol of amendment of the contested Trade Facilitation Agreement.
Oil Lubricates Equatorial Guinea’s Entry into Portuguese Language Community
- Inter Press Service
LISBON, Jul 25 (IPS) - Evidently, oil talked louder. By unanimous resolution, the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) admitted Equatorial Guinea as a full member, in spite of the CPLP's ban on dictatorial regimes and the death penalty.
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