News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 871
CUBA: Castro Hopes Popular Debates Build Consensus for Economic Plans
- Inter Press Service
'This is getting bad. We hear that they're going to take away the ration books,' says an elderly man, his elbows resting on the countertop of a small shop in the Cuban capital. 'Well, for whatever it's worth,' replies a woman in a low voice as she makes her monthly ration purchases.
DEVELOPMENT: Economic Boom Worsened De-industrialisation of LDCs
- Inter Press Service
Least developed countries (LDCs) in Africa did not use the commodity export boom of the mid-2000s to diversify their economies from commodity dependence to manufacturing value-added products. Significantly, the agricultural sector has also not benefited, with the result that LDC reliance on imported food has become even worse.
CAMBODIA: EU Trade Access Goes A Long Way
- Inter Press Service
When the European Union slapped crippling anti-dumping duties on Vietnamese bicycle exports in 2006, one factory’s Taiwan- based owner decided enough was enough.
DEVELOPMENT: Africa's Time Has Come
- Inter Press Service
There is the image of Africa, worse than Africa is, and then there is Africa, so much of it better than its image. It's the continent whose time has come, African civil society leaders emphasised at a meeting in Madrid Thursday.
CHINA: ‘Hukou’ Registration System Trips Over Inequity
- Inter Press Service
Yu Mengxiang is a 24-year-old office manager at a foreign company in Beijing. Although he looks and acts like a typical urban male, his household registration — or ‘hukou’ — is in a village in north-east Liaoning province, which means he isn’t entitled to government benefits in the capital. Bucking conventional wisdom, he doesn’t want any.
/UPDATE*/: Controversial Bypass Under Way At Mozambique Smelter
- Inter Press Service
Aluminium giant BHP Billiton’s Mozal smelter has begun bypassing its fume treatment centres, emitting potentially dangerous fumes into the air without treating them first - despite a pending court case on the matter.
CONGO: Beninois Fishing Community Evicted
- Inter Press Service
The Autonomous Port of Pointe-Noire has evicted 8,000 residents of a fishing village to make way for expanded facilities. The move is a blow to the community's livelihoods, as well as closing down the market that supplied the city's poor with affordable protein.
Strong as China, Fragile as Porcelain
- Inter Press Service
In times of inflationary pressures the price of patriotism too goes up. The news that an 18th century Chinese porcelain vase sold for a record-breaking 68 million dollars at a London auction to a mainland China buyer this month did not go down well either with Chinese government regulators fretting about asset bubbles or with a Chinese public angry about income inequality.
Recycling for Hope and Dignity on Paraguay's Streets
- Inter Press Service
'I go out with my cart and collect plastic bottles, cardboard, paper, plastic bags; that is my work,' said Laura Cardozo, proud member of a recycling group that works the Paraguayan capital's streets.
KENYA: A Brand New Constitution, But Can Women Enjoy Land Rights?
- Inter Press Service
Mary Kimani wishes her husband were still alive. Holding her one-year-old son in one hand and a hoe in the other, she recounts with bitterness how she and her children lost their livelihood to her husband’s family.
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