News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 860
INDIA: New Push to Chase Money in Swiss Banks
- Inter Press Service
After Prime Minister Manmohan Singh refusal to divulge details of billions of dollars allegedly stashed away abroad by Indians, anti-corruption crusaders are banking their hopes on promised Wikileaks revelations.
Middle East Fast Bleeding Money
- Inter Press Service
Middle East countries have seen the largest increase of illicit outflows of funds to richer nations, depriving the developing nations of much needed development money, a new international report shows.
Three-Day Summit Cements US-China Frenemy Status
- Inter Press Service
On the tail end of Chinese leader Hu Jintao's three-day visit to the U.S. capital, observers are cautiously pleased with what they see as a constructive summit between the two nation's leaders, but eager to see whether this week's promises will translate into tangible results.
COTE D'IVOIRE: New Techniques, New Profits for Tomato Farmers
- Inter Press Service
Even while the country has faced civil war and political crisis, innovative research organisations have worked to meet the challenges of food security and rural poverty.
JAMAICA: Dying Manufacturing Sector Seeks Govt Cure
- Inter Press Service
For close to 10 years, Patrick Marzouca has just managed to keep his tiny car factory afloat in a rapidly declining productive sector.
SWAZILAND: Free Primary Education - If You Can Afford It
- Inter Press Service
The new school year opened with hope - and hunger - in Swaziland this week: an estimated 140,000 orphans and vulnerable children are among the small, eager faces in the mountain kingdom's classrooms. Poverty and the AIDS pandemic threaten to make an early mark on the next generation.
Pressure Builds to End Stalemate in Cote d'Ivoire
- Inter Press Service
Ten days before the two-month deadline for a negotiated solution to Cote d'Ivoire's presidential deadlock comes due, pressure is mounting to end the stalemate in Abidjan, as observers pin the outcome of the power struggle on the future of the region as a whole.
More Arabs Protest Rulers With Self-Immolations
- Inter Press Service
Mohammed Bouazizi, the 26-year old Tunisian whose act of self-immolation led to an unprecedented popular revolution in Tunisia, is quickly turning into a symbol for disgruntled Arab youths angry at their autocratic rulers and poor economic conditions - a development that Arab leaders in the region are clearly taking note of.
More Arabs Protest Rulers With Self-Immolations
- Inter Press Service
Mohammed Bouazizi, the 26-year old Tunisian whose act of self-immolation led to an unprecedented popular revolution in Tunisia, is quickly turning into a symbol for disgruntled Arab youths angry at their autocratic rulers and poor economic conditions - a development that Arab leaders in the region are clearly taking note of.
Malnutrition Has an Indigenous Face in Peru
- Inter Press Service
Indigenous children under five in Peru's highlands regions still bear the brunt of chronic malnutrition, even though local authorities in those areas received millions of dollars worth of taxes between 2006 and 2010 from the mining companies operating there.
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