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A Fair Wind for Clean Energy in Central America
- Inter Press Service
Soaring international prices for oil and gas are driving the expansion of renewable energies in Central America, a region that has plenty of untapped potential for producing hydroelectricity, wind power and geothermal energy.
Colonial-Style Land Grabbing Back on the Table
- Inter Press Service
The highly-contested Principles on Responsible Agricultural Investment (RAI), a set of priorities that peasants’ collectives and food rights groups have been battling for years, are back on the table this week, as the annual Conference on Land and Poverty opened at World Bank headquarters here Monday.
DEVELOPMENT: Libyan Investments in Caribbean Under Threat
- Inter Press Service
Although located over 9,500 kilometres from the North African country of Libya, the turmoil there has not left the leaders of some small Caribbean nations unscathed.
ZAMBIA: High-Tech Border Post Transforming Trade
- Inter Press Service
A few weeks ago, a truck driver got the shock of his life when his employer called from South Africa asking why he had siphoned fuel from his vehicle while awaiting clearance at the Kasumbalesa Border Post between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Developing Nations Protest Move to Slash U.N. Budget
- Inter Press Service
The Group of 77 (G77), the largest single coalition of developing countries, has issued a strong letter of protest against a proposal to cut some 155 million dollars from the U.N.’s 2012-2013 biennium budget beginning next January.
/CORRECTED REPEAT*/: South Africa Makes Its Debut at BRICS Summit
- Inter Press Service
The BRICS summit begins with a meeting of trade ministers on Wednesday on China's Hainan island, with South Africa participating in the gathering of leading emerging economies for the first time.
Financiers Lock Horns over Macro Policies While Millions Go Hungry
- Inter Press Service
As weeks of what the International Monetary Fund's managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn called 'painful' negotiations over a host of macroeconomic policies drew to a close here Saturday, confusion over coherent strategies for sustainable economic recovery hangs thick in the air.
BRICS to Show Its Weight at WTO
- Inter Press Service
Despite political differences among member countries, BRICS has set its sights on global trade talks to assert its weight. Its declared aim: to secure economic benefits for developing nations.
U.S.: BP Handling of Claims Slammed by Gulf Residents
- Inter Press Service
Attorney Kenneth Feinberg, paid by BP to administer the firm's 20-billion-dollar compensation fund, has become the focal point of anger for Gulf residents who are angry, frustrated and desperate for help following last year's massive oil disaster.
MIDEAST: Palestinians Find Trade, Not an Economy
- Inter Press Service
The Palestinian Authority is preapring to establish a state in near future. But the Palestinian economy remains strongly tied to Israel, and manufacturers are struggling to recover from the second Intifadah.
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