News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 590
Industry in Argentina Going Strong, But More Is Needed
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Jul 24 (IPS) - Industry in Argentina has seen a sustained rise in production, exports and employment since 2003. But in order for this trend to become a structural change, greater import substitution is needed, analysts say.
Poland’s Shale Gas Bubble ‘Bursting’
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Jul 24 (IPS) - Since Jun. 3, inhabitants of the village Zurawlow in Grabowiec district in southeastern Poland have been occupying a field in their locality where the U.S. company Chevron plans to drill for shale gas. The farmers' resistance is just the latest blow to shale gas proponents in the country.
Rouhani Faces Tests at Home and Abroad
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 23 (IPS) - The successful campaign of Iran's President-elect Hassan Rouhani may have been built on the persistence of hope among Iranian voters for a better future.
Justice Over G8 Killing Delayed and Denied
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jul 23 (IPS) - "It was midnight and I was sleeping; I woke up to the noise of the police breaking down the entrance door of the school," says Italian journalist Lorenzo Guadagnucci. "They came in running and screaming. The bashing was immediate, with no chance of mediation."
World Bank “Falling Behind” on Human Rights, Critics Warn
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 23 (IPS) - The World Bank is being urged to explicitly incorporate human rights into its development lending criteria, ahead of an important discussion on the subject by its executive board on Tuesday.
Ensuring Microcredit's Primary Goal Remains Changing Lives
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Jul 22 (IPS) - Microfinance is essentially social, but its expansion and evolution towards diversified financial services for those who are excluded from the conventional system has compelled it to develop new codes and practices to reinforce the message that its goal is people - particularly the poor.
Indonesia Comes under Fire for Fires
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 22 (IPS) - With a propensity to devour everything in their path and spiral quickly out of control, leaving behind swathes of scorched earth, forest fires are considered a hazard in most parts of the world. In Indonesia, however, fires are the preferred method for clearing large areas of land for massive plantations of commercial crops.
Making Peace with Our Futures
- Inter Press Service
BUCHAREST, Jul 22 (IPS) - Future studies, like peace-development-environment studies, is an interdisciplinary, international effort to get a grip on key issues, divided into ‘preferred futures' – utopias – whose?; ‘predicted futures' – forecasting – who does it, for whom?; and ‘future practice' – scenarios bending the predicted toward the preferred – by and for whom?
Undocumented Workers Find Courage in Solidarity
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jul 22 (IPS) - Ataur was 18 when he left Bangladesh and arrived in the United States in 1991 as an undocumented migrant. He took two jobs at the same time, earning about 35 dollars a day in total.
Challenges and Opportunities Await Iran’s Rouhani
- Inter Press Service
BLACKSBURG, Virginia, U.S., Jul 22 (IPS) - The transition team of Iran's President-elect Hassan Rouhani was busy last week lowering expectations for a quick economic recovery, saying that things are far worse than they had thought.
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