News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 854
U.S. House Pushes Through Deep Aid Cuts
- Inter Press Service
With a 2015 deadline fast approaching to meet a collective global promise to tackle poverty and improve education, health and environmental sustainability around the world, development and humanitarian advocates are up in arms over conservative lawmakers' proposals to slash and burn entire chunks of the United States' foreign aid budget.
AFRICA: Billions Lost to State Coffers Due to Tax Leniency
- Inter Press Service
Bad governance and the persistence of the tax avoidance industry allow billions of dollars of profit to be siphoned out of Africa, untaxed, every year.
MEXICO: Peanuts in Times of Food Crisis
- Inter Press Service
Yandi Condado and a small group of farmers in the southern Mexican state of Puebla decided a few years ago to process their peanuts as an economic boost -- and to defend this traditional crop against the advances of more profitable options.
ECONOMY: Size Is Key Factor in Emerging Powers
- Inter Press Service
Two decades ago, Japan was the main threat to U.S. global economic dominance, but this challenge waned before the advent of the 21st century. Now China and India are the new champions of growth, with the clear implication that population size is a decisive factor in their rise to power.
UZBEKISTAN: EU Accused of Backing Child Labour
- Inter Press Service
The EU is facing accusations of tacitly supporting child labour after its main decision-making body approved a trade agreement with Uzbekistan on textiles — an industry known to involve at least one million child labourers a year.
NAMIBIA: Basic Income Grant: 'Let Others Taste What We Have Tasted'
- Inter Press Service
A universal Basic Income Grant (BIG) would create laziness and dependence among Namibia’s poor, say politicians. A daring pilot project set out to prove that this untrue. IPS spoke to one of the beneficiaries of the BIG.
NAMIBIA: 'You Know I'm Hungry, Feed Me Today'
- Inter Press Service
A universal income grant in Namibia would alleviate poverty in one of the most unequal societies on earth, say campaigners. Free handouts only lead to laziness, responds an unwilling government.
Axe Descends on U.S. Overseas Aid
- Inter Press Service
With U.S. President Barack Obama's release of his Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 foreign affairs budget Monday and a proposal currently in the U.S. House of Representatives for massive cuts in FY 2011 international spending, the fight to sustain U.S. aid abroad is intensifying.
US: Prisoners Have No Choice But to Drink Arsenic-Laced Water
- Inter Press Service
When Kern Valley State Prison opened in 2005, the 379 million dollar facility in Central California was hailed as 'state of the art'. But within weeks of opening, a major problem was discovered: its water was poisoned - containing roughly twice the federally permitted level of arsenic, a known carcinogen.
TRADE: Civil Society Ensuring Development Stays on EPA Agenda
- Inter Press Service
In an unusual move, West and Central African civil society organisations have participated in the negotiations between their countries and the European Union on the economic partnership agreements (EPAs). The organisations stress developmental concerns while assisting under-resourced African governments with trade expertise.
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