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News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 553
Glaring Asymmetries in Bali Accord
- Inter Press Service
BALI, Dic 16 (IPS) - As industrialised countries celebrate the World Trade Organisation's Bali accord, the developing and the least-developed countries are forced to carry their battle to another day after securing only half-baked results and grandiose promises, said several trade ministers.
Zero Garbage Plan Tied to Fate of Ousted Bogotá Mayor
- Inter Press Service
BOGOTÁ, Dic 13 (IPS) - The ousted left-wing mayor of the Colombian capital, Gustavo Petro, is a casualty of the battle over the introduction of a Zero Garbage programme, which had included thousands of informal recyclers in the waste disposal business.
Illicit Capital Leaving Developing Countries Up by 14 Percent
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 12 (IPS) - Developing countries are likely losing more than a trillion dollars a year in "illicit financial flows" stemming from crime and corruption, according to new estimates. This fast-rising figure is already 10 times the total amount of foreign aid these countries are receiving.
Mundurukú Indians in Brazil Protest Tapajós Dams
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dic 12 (IPS) - It took them three days to make the 2,000-km journey by bus from their Amazon jungle villages.
In Home Gardens, Income and Food for Urban Poor
- Inter Press Service
AMMAN, Dic 12 (IPS) - Flowers burst out of old tires and rows of pepper plants fill recycled plastic tubs as herbs pop out of old pipes. As utilitarian as it is cheery, this rooftop array is one of several urban agriculture projects that are significantly improving livelihoods for the urban poor in this sprawling city.
Reaching Quietly for the ‘Solidarity Basket’
- Inter Press Service
BELGRADE, Dic 12 (IPS) - In the early morning hours, as hundreds of people grab their breakfast at a busy bakery in Beogradska Street in the Serbian capital, a very special basket quickly fills up with croissants, rolls and breads. It is the ‘solidarity basket'.
Changes Coming to South Africa’s Patent System
- Inter Press Service
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Dic 12 (IPS) - Paul Anley, chief executive officer of Pharma Dynamics, one of South Africa's leading generic drug companies, wants to sell a cheaper version of popular birth control pill Yasmin. But he legally cannot because German multinational Bayer has patent protection on the drug in South Africa, even though its initial patent expired in 2010. South Africa's Arms Industry Most Advanced in Global South
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dic 11 (IPS) - When the white apartheid regime in South Africa kept the overwhelming majority of blacks under military repression, the country's security forces were armed with weapons originating mostly from a highly-developed domestic armaments industry.
In Minimum Wage Debate, A Battle Over Inequality and Job Loss
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 11 (IPS) - In the midst of a nationwide movement for policymakers to raise minimum wages for millions of workers in the United States, experts here continue to debate the advantages and drawbacks of raising the federal rate.
Throwing the Tanzania-Zambia Railway a Lifeline
- Inter Press Service
DAR ES SALAAM, Dic 11 (IPS) - Some say it's the journey, not the destination that matters. Hop aboard the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) line at Tanzania's Dar es Salaam port and begin the 1,860-kilometre journey to Kapiri Mposhi, a small town in Zambia's Central Province, and you may find yourself pondering this adage.
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