News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 868
TRADE: Time for Fairer Trade, Indonesia Tells EU
- Inter Press Service
Business people and officials are demanding more fair trade from the European Union, arguing that its policies, including those that come in the guise of climate change concerns, make it difficult for the country’s products to compete in EU market.
PERU: Resistance to Increasing Mining Royalties
- Inter Press Service
As metal prices continue to soar, the debate on a tax on windfall earnings of mining companies in Peru and an increase in the royalties they pay has been revived.
Brazil’s Economy Booming, but Sliding Backwards
- Inter Press Service
Although the Brazilian economy is now one of the fastest growing in the world, it cannot claim an entirely clean bill of health. Declining industrial output threatens to put the country's development into reverse, and no short term remedy is in sight.
GREECE: The Centre Is Falling Apart
- Inter Press Service
The experience of walking through Omonia Square in downtown Athens can send shivers down the spine of even the calmest of visitors. In recent months, increased incidents of street crime, drug trafficking, and prostitution have turned the square into a site many citizens go to lengths to avoid
SRI LANKA: Fund Shortfall Slows Post-War Development
- Inter Press Service
Some 19 months since the end of Sri Lanka’s decades-long civil war, over 325,000 civilians displaced by the final bout of fighting between late 2007 and May 2009 have returned to live in their villages or with their relatives.
Q&A: 'Create a Protocol Based on Non-Emissions'
- Inter Press Service
Latin America should create regional conventions to protect biodiversity and combat the impacts of climate change, according to Ecuadorian environmentalist Yolanda Kakabadse, president of the World Wild Fund for Nature International (WWF).
PHILIPPINES: Cash Grants Get Youngsters Back into School
- Inter Press Service
Give the poor cash and they will spend it on things other than their most basic needs. Or with no thought for their future, let alone their children’s, they just might indulge in wasteful spending. Right?
Q&A: Revitalising Agriculture Starts in a Small Field
- Inter Press Service
In countries around the world, small farmers are trapped in a vicious circle - hard-pressed governments don't invest enough money in local agriculture, and local producers find themselves driven off their lands and into urban slums, where they sink even deeper into poverty.
WEST AFRICA: New Vaccine For Mass Campaign Against Meningitis
- Inter Press Service
More than 20 million people will be vaccinated between now and the end of the year in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger as a mass vaccination campaign using a new conjugate vaccine unfolds across West Africa. Manufactured in India, MenAfriVac offers health authorities a powerful weapon against a deadly disease.
OP-ED: Stimulate the Green Race to Tackle Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
While negotiators in Cancún are struggling to make progress, there is something interesting happening in the world. And, it is good news. Countries have started to recognise and act upon the economic value in meeting the demand for green technology.
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