News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 879
Cubans Queue Up for Copies of New Self-Employment Rules
- Inter Press Service
'They brought me 100 copies, which sold out in less than half an hour,' the vendor at one of the Cuban government's newsstands told IPS, referring to the nearly 100 pages of regulations published in the government gazette. The people queuing up 'just about drove me crazy,' he added.
U.S. Aid Shift Envisions Path to Self-Sufficiency
- Inter Press Service
As part of a more general promise of reform to U.S. development policy, the U.S. Agency for International Development is poised to fundamentally alter the way it tackles poverty overseas.
ZIMBABWE: Woman Metal Worker Breaking the Mould
- Inter Press Service
At a time when more and more women around the world are taking up jobs in male-dominated domains, 41-year-old Sithabile Ruswa is also making her mark, albeit far from the air-conditioned boardrooms usually reported on.
Palau Announces Massive Marine Sanctuary
- Inter Press Service
One of Japan's closest allies declared over the weekend that all of its oceans - more than 600,000 square kilometres - would be a sanctuary for whales, dolphins, dugongs, sharks and other species.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: New Inland Port Set to Improve Regional Trade
- Inter Press Service
Land-locked Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe expect to improve their import and export fortunes following the opening of an inland harbour, the Nsanje World Inland Port, on Malawi’s biggest river, The Shire.
SRI LANKA: Widows Struggle to Put Life Back Together Again
- Inter Press Service
Having to take care of eight teenage children is not an easy task for 70-year-old Yamunadevi (not her real name).
Without Investment in Agriculture, Africans Stay Hungry
- Inter Press Service
Inadequate access to water, recurring floods and droughts as well as a lack of political will to invest in small-scale agriculture perpetuate hunger across Africa, the continent’s food security experts say.
African Govts Urged to Invest in Social Protection
- Inter Press Service
Allocating just one percent of GDP to social protection could make a massive difference to the lives of the continent’s poorest children.
Uribe and Other Hurdles for Colombia's Land Law
- Inter Press Service
Although it was to be expected, former president Álvaro Uribe's return to politics in Colombia has caused a stir and has a clear aim: to block two of his successor Juan Manuel Santos's pet projects -- reparations to victims of the armed conflict and the restoration of land to displaced peasant farmers.
BRAZIL: Environment Meets Development en Route to the Pacific
- Inter Press Service
Acre, the small Brazilian state that is a symbol of the struggle to preserve the Amazon rainforest, is facing the challenge of ensuring that the development ushered in by two paved roads that will link the state to both the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans will be sustainable.
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