News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 857
SRI LANKA: Domestics Court Risks, Defying Age Bar
- Inter Press Service
Sri Lanka has raised the age requirement for women wanting to leave the country to work as domestics abroad, but recruitment agents say this won’t prevent younger women from joining the exodus.
ECONOMY: Same Old System Can Only Produce New Crisis
- Inter Press Service
The world is in financial crisis thanks to the reckless behaviour of bankers, say campaigners, yet ordinary people are picking up the tab. Debt activists fear the recession will provide cover for a fresh round of toxic debt to countries in the South.
Rising Food Prices May Not Signal New Crisis
- Inter Press Service
As food prices rose for the seventh month in a row in January, contributing to recent popular unrest in the Middle East and a spike in commodities purchases by developing countries last week, some analysts are quick to make comparisons to the dry years of 2007-2008.
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Dhaka to Dakar
- Inter Press Service
Is it more important to build links with African civil society groups or concentrate on existing networks in the South Asian region? That is the dilemma before Indian delegates heading for the World Social Forum in Dakar, Senegal, and some who have opted out.
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: More Complex Global Crises in 11th Year
- Inter Press Service
Neoliberalism and the attendant financial globalisation were a common enemy that unified and mobilised activists of the most diverse tendencies who founded, ten years ago in Porto Alegre in southern Brazil, the World Social Forum (WSF) as a space to meet, reflect and debate, under the slogan 'Another World Is Possible'.
Q&A: Hunger, Food Shortages Fuel Uprisings
- Inter Press Service
The rise in food prices and growing hunger, one of the causes of the popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and other countries in the Arab world, is due to financial speculation and not a lack of arable land, says Janaina Stronzake, a leader of Brazil's Landless Workers Movement (MST).
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Poverty without Borders
- Inter Press Service
It's the land of freedom, of bright lights and burgers, where daring entrepreneurs arrive from across the planet in search of fame and fortune. The United States of America - the world's melting pot - has been a symbol of hope for centuries, but behind this vision of wealth and wonder is a tale often untold.
Bankers Bash on, Regardless
- Inter Press Service
The World Economic Forum became a platform this year for bankers to seek to re-assert their traditional power. And once again, it became a forum - in contrast and even opposition to the World Social Forum due to begin in Senegalese capital Dakar next week — where the damaging effects of globalisation and the environmental consequences of unrestrained growth were pushed aside.
Questions About China’s 'Win-Win' Relationship With Angola
- Inter Press Service
Crouched on haunches on the edge of a crumbling pavement, a group of Chinese construction workers are eating noodles from tin bowls, wearing floppy straw hats under their green safety helmets to protect them from the aggressive midday sun.
TRADE: Doha Round Tariffs Cuts 'Will Still Hit' Poor Countries
- Inter Press Service
To allow least developed countries (LDCs) to protect nascent industries, they are not required to cut tariffs for industrial goods and fisheries in the Doha Development Round. However, tariffs cuts will affect them if they are members of customs unions where some of their neighbours are larger developing countries without LDC status.
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