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Global unemployment to increase in 2024, warns ILO report
- UN News
Global unemployment is expected to rise this year, with growing inequality and stagnant productivity also a cause for concern on the economic horizon, the UN labour agency ILO said on Wednesday.
Flagship economic report highlights why global cooperation is key
- UN News
The UN’s World Economic Situation and Prospects report for 2024 projects a slowdown in global growth from an estimated 2.7 per cent in 2023 to 2.4 per cent in 2024.
Europes Shift to the Far Right and its Impact on Immigration
- Inter Press Service
ROME and AMSTERDAM, Jan 02 (IPS) - The recent elections in the Netherlands signals the increasing power of the far right in Europe. The populist party of Geert Wilders, the Party for Freedom, won a decisive, albeit unexpected, victory taking 37 seats out the 150 seat in parliament. Wilders will likely be the head of the next Government. His policies include stopping all immigration into the Netherlands, holding a referendum on leaving the EU, and banning mosques and the Quran.
‘Act on the lessons of COVID-19’, Guterres says on Epidemic Preparedness Day
- UN News
The world must prepare for the next pandemic and act on lessons learned from COVID-19, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a message on Wednesday to mark the International Day of Epidemic Preparedness.
Amidst a Horrendous 2023, Civil Society is Fighting Back Society
- Inter Press Service
TORONTO, Canada, Dec 22 (IPS) - The year 2023 has brought so much tragedy, with incomprehensible loss of lives, whether from wars or devastating ‘natural’ disasters, while our planet has seen yet more records broken as our climate catastrophe worsens.
The Opaque Chain of Electric Cars Assembled in Mexico
- Inter Press Service
AUSTIN, Texas, US, Dec 20 (IPS) - The city of Austin, Texas, on the U.S.-Mexico border, had 945,000 residents in 2021 and on average each household owned two cars, hundreds of them electric. Among the manufacturers of these electric vehicles are companies such as the US Tesla, Ford and General Motors (GM).
Saving Energy, Saving Forests: How Kindle Stoves Are Changing Women's Lives
- Inter Press Service
KEZI, ZIMBABWE, Dec 20 (IPS) - Five years ago, farmer Sehlisiwe Sisanda would walk into a nearby forested area to fill a scotch cart with huge wood logs for cooking and heating; a pile of firewood would last her a week during the summer.
Latin America Can Boost Economic Growth by Reducing Crime
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Dec 20 (IPS) - Crime and violence have long been a top-of-mind concern for households across Latin America and the Caribbean. The region accounts for nearly half of the world's intentional homicide victims, despite representing just over 8 percent of the global population, United Nations data show.
World Bank Enables Private Capture of Profits, Public Resources
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Dec 20 (IPS) - The World Bank insists commercial finance is necessary for achieving economic recovery and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but does little to ensure profit-hungry commercial finance serves the public interest.
By failing to address pressing challenges within their purview, the second-ever Bretton Woods institutions’ (BWIs) annual meetings on the African continent, in Marrakech in October 2023, set the developing world even further back.
New Megaport in Peru Ignores Complaints from Local Residents
- Inter Press Service
CHANCAY, Peru, Dec 19 (IPS) - "We have always lived a very quiet life here, but everything has changed since the construction of the multi-purpose port began a few years ago," said Miriam Arce, a neighborhood leader in this municipality 80 kilometers north of the Peruvian capital, where the new port is projected to become the epicenter of trade between China and South American countries.
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