News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 84
Imperialism, Globalisation and Its Discontents*
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Feb 19 (IPS) - Imperialism continues to dominate the world. Globalisation is losing to some of its anti-theses, but imperialism still rules, increasingly by law, albeit in changing even contradictory ways.
UN Tax Convention is Historic Opportunity at Risk of Failing
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Feb 15 (IPS) - In late November, the UN General Assembly passed a landmark resolution signaling a start on working on a UN framework convention on taxation.
Start-ups Powering up Africas Solar Energy Ecosystem
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 14 (IPS) - Often referred to as the “Sun continent,” Africa receives more hours of bright sunlight than any other continent. But even with 60 per cent of the world’s solar resources, Africa has only one per cent of solar generation capacity, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
North Ignores Perfect Storm in Global South
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Feb 14 (IPS) - A gathering ‘perfect storm’ – due to various developments, several quite deliberate – now threatens much devastation in the global South, likely to most hurt the poorest and most vulnerable.
World Social Forum Seeks to Reemerge as an Influential Gathering of Diversity
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 13 (IPS) - The World Social Forum (WSF) is today "more necessary than ever," according to Oded Grajew, promoter and co-founder of the global civil society meeting - a festival of diversity that has not yet succeeded in fomenting or designing the "other possible world" that it predicted when it was created and adopted that motto.
History’s Inflation Lessons
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Feb 13 (IPS) - In the early 1970s, conflict in the Middle East set off a spike in oil prices that left central banks around the world scrambling to control inflation. After a year or so, oil prices stabilized and inflation started to retreat. Many countries believed they had restored price stability and loosened policy to revive their recession-hit economies only to see inflation return. Could history repeat?
First Person: ‘My eggs are too expensive to eat’ (and that’s a good thing)
- UN News
Small-scale chicken farmers in the south of Madagascar are hatching a plan to boost their incomes and improve the stock of local poultry breeds, thanks to support from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Embodying the Spirit of the Dragon
- Inter Press Service
BEIJING, Feb 08 (IPS) - The Year of the Dragon is upon us.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in his message for this Lunar New Year, “The dragon symbolizes energy, wisdom, protection and good luck. We need these qualities to rise to today’s global challenges.”
Neocolonial ISDS, Abused, Biased, Costly, and Grossly Unfair
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Feb 07 (IPS) - Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provisions in international trade and investment agreements – long abused by opportunists with means – are slowly being rejected by cautious governments.
Landlocked Developing Countries Conference to Address Development
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 06 (IPS) - Landlocked developing countries need greater support from the international community so that they are no longer left behind when it comes to progressing with the SDGs, says the UN High Representative of the Least Developed Countries.
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