News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 575
Boats of Hope Head for Australian Rocks
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Sep 22 (IPS) - It was a decision based on simple sums. Ananda, 28, from Weligama in the southern Sri Lankan district Matara decided to risk it all boarding a boat to Australia last year because he never had enough money.
Robin Hood Activists Take Aim at Wall Street
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Sep 21 (IPS) - Five years after the 2008 world financial crisis and two years after the Occupy movement it triggered, U.S. critics of the financial sector are coalescing around the idea of a Robin Hood Tax on financial transactions.
U.S. Proposes Landmark Cap on CO2 from Power Plants
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 20 (IPS) - Regulators here have taken the first major step of President Barack Obama's second term to scale back U.S. carbon emissions, proposing first-ever rules to dramatically reduce allowable greenhouse gas pollution for future power plants.
Heading Somewhere in Europe, Somehow
- Inter Press Service
ATHENS, Sep 20 (IPS) - While the relentless war in Syria continuously adds to the number of refugees travelling west to Europe, Greece is fast becoming a nation they are choosing to avoid.
Watchdog Body Will Oversee Private Military Contractors
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 19 (IPS) - Member governments, security companies and civil society organisations on Thursday formally created the first international body to be tasked with the monitoring and oversight of private military contractors' adherence to human rights standards and international law.
Ghana’s Growing Economy Fails to Create Jobs
- Inter Press Service
ACCRA, Sep 19 (IPS) - Ghana's economy registered 7.1 percent growth last year but 23-year-old Jennifer Esi Avemee has had difficulty securing a permanent job since graduating in 2011. "It's very stressful," she laments. "It's very hard to sustain yourself."
U.S. to Require Disclosure of Worker-to-CEO Pay Gap
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 19 (IPS) - Regulators here are proposing that most U.S. corporations be required to provide annual public reporting on how the pay received by their chief executive compares to that of their average workers, a requirement proponents say could be a first step in reining in an unprecedented swelling in executive compensation.
Credit Rating Reform Overlooks Developing World
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 18 (IPS) - The concerns of developing countries about credit rating agencies (CRAs) risk going unheard as regulatory bodies around the world tackle questions raised after the 2008 financial crisis.
OP-ED: Financing of Disaster Risk Reduction Needs Urgent Reform
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Sep 18 (IPS) - Over 20 years, disaster losses in developing nations have amounted to 862 billion dollars (a considerable under-estimate). During this period the international community has spent just 13.5 billion dollars on disaster risk reduction (DRR), equivalent to 40 cents of every 100 dollars of development aid – this has to change.
Trinidad Cracks Down on Destructive Shrimp Trawling
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Sep 18 (IPS) - Dianne Christian Simmons recalls the days when she would head out with her husband on fishing expeditions in the Gulf of Paria, a 3,000-square-mile shallow inland sea between Trinidad and Tobago and the east coast of Venezuela.
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