News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 858
HEALTH-PERU: Cost of Medicines Out of Control
- Inter Press Service
When the price of medicines for treating cancer soared by up to 64 percent in 2010, the Peruvian government set up a watchdog commission that will also monitor prices of drugs for diabetes and HIV/AIDS.
DEVELOPMENT: African LDCs Won’t Benefit Much from BRICS Arrival
- Inter Press Service
South Africa landed a coveted membership with the Brazil, Russia, India and China bloc (BRIC) by marketing itself as a gateway to Africa but analysts doubt whether this development holds real benefits for poor countries on the rest of the continent.
Serbs Turn Back to Arms for Money
- Inter Press Service
A long-running joke in Serbia goes that the country’s most successful export products are berries, grains, maize, and world-renowned tennis players like Novak Djokovic and Jelena Jankovic.
ZAMBIA: Unsolved Riddle of Sustaining Water Utilities
- Inter Press Service
Sebastian Chilekwa’s job title at the Luapula Water and Sewerage Company is 'Managing Director of Dilemma'. Or it should be.
AFRICA: Arms Treaty to Rein in Trigger-Happy Rogue Regimes
- Inter Press Service
A half a century after U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower named and denounced the military-industrial complex’s ever-increasing influence on world affairs, the arms trade thrives more than ever, with African states frequently being the destination.
U.S.: Spate of Trade Deals Move Toward Passage
- Inter Press Service
On the heels of U.S. President Barack Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday in which he focused squarely on resuscitating the economy, pressure is mounting in the nation's capital to move forward with free trade agreements (FTAs) whose passage would promote exports and create jobs.
US: Lethal Drug Shortage Creates Ethical Quagmire
- Inter Press Service
As the domestic and overseas sources that U.S. states relied upon for sodium thiopental (ST), a key drug used in lethal injections, have stopped producing or exporting the drug, state governments are scrambling to find another way to carry out planned executions.
Arms Treaty Campaigners Seize on 'Merchant of Death' Case
- Inter Press Service
When Andrew Niccol wrote and directed the feature film 'Lord of War', the story was partly inspired by the life of Viktor Bout, a Russian businessman suspected of using his air cargo company as a cover for arms dealing.
DEVELOPMENT-UGANDA: Fair Trade Gives Coffee Farming a Lift
- Inter Press Service
The cultivation of coffee beans for fair trade has turned the fortunes of this historical cash crop around in some poor rural areas on the slopes of Mount Elgon in eastern Uganda.
Rampant Speculation Inflated Food Price Bubble
- Inter Press Service
Billions of dollars are being made by investors in a speculative 'food bubble' that's created record food prices, starving millions and destabilising countries, experts now conclude.
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