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Cuba's Communist Party to Adopt Reforms
- Inter Press Service
Cuba's governing Communist Party (PCC) will meet over the weekend to decide on the direction and scope of far-reaching reforms aimed at modernising the country's socialist economy over the next few years.
U.S.: 2011 Foreign Aid Cuts Not as Great as Feared
- Inter Press Service
While the State Department's overall 2011 international affairs budget was cut sharply from President Barack Obama's initial request, humanitarian and development groups are expressing some relief at the final result given the current political climate.
A Table for Nine Billion
- Inter Press Service
As the World Bank and International Monetary Fund convene for their annual Spring Meetings here, soaring food prices are high on the agenda, prompting some analysts to fast-forward to 2050 and the question of how to nourish the mid-century's estimated world population of 8.9 billion people — the majority of whom will live in developing countries.
DEVELOPMENT: IBSA’s South-South Funding With No Strings Attached
- Inter Press Service
Development donors typically impose strict conditions on recipient countries. Now a different South-South approach to funding is taking shape through the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Fund for Poverty and Hunger Alleviation.
Young Cubans Unsure Where to Turn for Decent Jobs
- Inter Press Service
In the throes of Cuba's economic 'reorganisation,' young people are walking a tightrope towards an uncertain employment future. They are finding it increasingly difficult to find jobs that meet both their professional aspirations and their salary expectations.
PHILIPPINES: Pulling Children Out of the Tunnel of Hard Labour
- Inter Press Service
At the tender age of 10, Rodel Morozco was working in a goldmine and crawling inside tunnels, until one day he fell 200 feet underground because his father had blasted the tunnel with dynamite.
Emerging Powers Harnessing Neighbours' Hydroelectricity
- Inter Press Service
Emerging countries like Brazil and China are building numerous hydroelectric dams at home and abroad to help drive their economic growth. But while in Latin America the phenomenon is touted as an integration process, in Asia it has generated tension over the shared use of rivers.
U.N. Decries Stagnant Funding For Population Goals
- Inter Press Service
As the international community readies to cope with a rising world population of some seven billion people by the middle of this year, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns that financial assistance for population-related activities has made no visible gains since 2008.
Kenyan Women Pulling Together Against Poverty
- Inter Press Service
When it works, it's spectacular: Esther Ngonyo Njuguna's dairy project stands as testimony to the potential of microcredit schemes to boost rural incomes.
More Economic BRICS in the Development Wall
- Inter Press Service
As BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) leaders prepare for Thursday’s summit in the resort town of Sanya in China’s southern Hainan province, experts here say there are limits to how ‘political’ the grouping can get.
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