News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 862
World Bank Sees Strong Growth for Some Developing Nations
- Inter Press Service
A report released Thursday by the World Bank indicates that for the next two years, developing nations are better poised on the road to economic recovery than their more developed counterparts.
Sanctions Forced Iran to Slash Bloated Energy Subsidies
- Inter Press Service
Touring Iran's Arab rivals this week, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sounded almost triumphant as she asserted that economic sanctions have helped slow Tehran's nuclear progress.
LEBANON: Trashy Bag Gets Trendy
- Inter Press Service
Wafa Saab, a high-powered executive at the leading Lebanese-manufactured paint company Tinol, is an environmentally friendly fashionista. On her arm hangs a pink and blue gym bag. It’s made of garbage.
Slovenia Goes Slow on Privatisation, and Succeeds
- Inter Press Service
Twenty years ago when the Berlin wall fell, radical privatisation was promoted as a solution to the ills of Eastern European economies. The one country that ignored the West’s recipe— Slovenia — seems to be faring far better.
Defence Contractors Insulated from Budget Cuts
- Inter Press Service
In one of U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower's most remembered speeches, he warned against 'the acquisition of unwarranted influence' resulting from the close brotherhood between the country's defence agencies, Capitol Hill and private business interests.
ZIMBABWE: Protecting the Zambezi's Kapenta Fish
- Inter Press Service
'The fish are disappearing.' The words and the world-weary gaze could belong to a fisherman from almost anywhere, as stocks come under pressure due to over-exploitation all over the world.
GREECE: As Austerity Bites, Police Get More Brutal
- Inter Press Service
'The most terrifying thing is the memory loss. I can’t recall anything after I was knocked out - and for a long time afterwards,' says Nasos Iliopoulos. His features are tense as he narrates his violent altercation with riot police.
CLIMATE CHANGE: ‘Water Towers of Asia’ Show Cracks
- Inter Press Service
A concerted effort to formally document the magnitude and directions of climate trends in the Eastern Himalayas and thereby decide regional adaptation strategies is critical to ensure the region’s water security, according to water experts.
Q&A: In Search of La Buen Vida
- Inter Press Service
The clock is ticking to live up to the promises governments made a decade ago to improve the lives of hundreds of millions of people. But are those promises themselves inherently flawed?
SRI LANKA: Media Freedom Still Distant
- Inter Press Service
January is indelibly linked to the tumultuous recent history of the media in Sri Lanka. Two years ago, on Jan. 8 Lasantha Manilal Wickrematunge, editor of the The Sunday Leader newspaper, was murdered while on his way to work.
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