News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 843
Least Developed Countries Stagnate Under Ailing Strategies
- Inter Press Service
A report released Tuesday by the International Labour Organization (ILO) for the Fourth Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) slated to take place in Istanbul, Turkey in early May expressed a strong critique of the snail's pace of development, but stopped just short of calling for radical new policies to be implemented.
Libya Uprising Hits West's Dinner Tables
- Inter Press Service
Linkages between the Libyan uprising and shelling out more money than usual at a local market in the West may not at first seem apparent but the common denominator is oil.
ZIMBABWE: Farmers Sceptical About 'Complicated' Exchange Market
- Inter Press Service
Kindness Paradza has a mission. After he lost his job as a journalist when the ZANU-PF government closed his newspaper in 2004, he ploughed his life savings into a 2,000 ha farm he received as part of Zimbabwe’s controversial 'land reform programme'.
CENTRAL AMERICA: Big Fish Eat the Small Fish
- Inter Press Service
Thousands of small-scale fishers in Central America are fighting for survival in the face of free trade deals, transnational corporations, mega tourism projects and pollution that is harming marine life.
Latin America's Gaze Increasingly Turns East
- Inter Press Service
On the heels of U.S. President Barack Obama's trip to Latin America, Washington's traditional role as 'regional hegemon' is being reevaluated as its attention focuses on the Arab Spring and an emerging commercial competitor - China - focuses on the U.S.'s backyard.
GUATEMALA: Evictions of Native Families Add Fuel to Fire Over Land Acces
- Inter Press Service
'We have nowhere to plant our corn, we have nothing,' Jorge Chocoj told IPS while waiting with his wife and three children for the police to evict them from the land they farmed in northwestern Guatemala.
AGRICULTURE: Malawian Cotton Farmers Ecstatic Over High Prices
- Inter Press Service
An ardent listener to the radio, small-scale cotton farmer Mercy Kaduya from Chikhwawa in Nsanje in southern Malawi has just heard an item during the international news segment that cotton prices have hit a record high on the international market.
CARIBBEAN: Colonies Seek to Redefine Relationship with EU
- Inter Press Service
The newly elected chair of the Overseas Countries and Territories Association (OCTA), Montserrat's Chief Minister Reuben Meade, wants 'trade rather than aid' to form the basis of the future relationship between Europe and its colonies around the world.
TRADE: Southern African Rulers Eyeing the Money, Not Development
- Inter Press Service
A new revenue sharing formula in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) could boost development but has met with resistance from the governments of poorer states in the sub-region that are interested in 'just getting the money'.
Fight Against Marine Garbage Runs Into Plastics Lobby
- Inter Press Service
Every day, billions of plastic bags and bottles are discarded, and every day, millions of these become plastic pollution, fouling the oceans and endangering marine life.
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