News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 884
EUROPE: Yugoslavia Back on Track
- Inter Press Service
For a while it looked like the start of a ride in a time machine. Serbian engineers, their caps bearing the emblems of the defunct Yugoslav Railways, cheered on the first train of the new Slovenian-Croatian-Serbian railway.
LEBANON: Tourism Planted at a Barbed Border
- Inter Press Service
The contours of a modern medieval castle stretch along the Wazzani River delineating Lebanon's border with Israel. A few metres away from the United Nations-mandated Blue Line, on Lebanon's first line of fire with Israel, a tourism project at an estimated cost of 20 million dollars is slowly taking shape.
CENTRAL ASIA: Remittances on the Rise
- Inter Press Service
Financial remittances to the Central Asian Republics by millions of both undocumented and legal migrants working in Russia have increased substantially, labour experts say.
INDIA: Textile Industry Could Use Shot in the Arm - Experts
- Inter Press Service
It is a sector that happens to be India’s second largest employer and its annual revenues are expected to grow three- fold within a decade if it gets all the support it needs. But major players in India’s textile and apparels industry say it remains low in the government’s list of priorities, rendering the sector incapable of realising its full potential.
WATER-ZAMBIA: Vanished Funds Mean Fields Stay Dry
- Inter Press Service
The M’cheleka Irrigation Scheme was meant to answer water and food security challenges in the Chadiza district of Zambia's Eastern Province. But ten years after the completion of the dam wall, only six families are benefiting from the water.
Support Growing for Degrowth
- Inter Press Service
In the face of a global recession that has not yet run its course, there is growing demand now for an economic model away from reliance on continued growth.
EU to Ease Trade Rules for Poor Countries
- Inter Press Service
The EU is due to adopt a simplified set of rules of origins for developing countries exports. Particular relaxations are foreseen for the least developed countries (LDCs), but the rules may mainly profit the strongest of them.
VENEZUELA: Chávez Revving Up Revolution with Land Takeovers
- Inter Press Service
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announced the expropriation of a subsidiary of the British Vestey Group, and of Agroisleña, a major agricultural firm founded by Spaniards half a century ago, indicating that he is radicalising his Bolivarian revolution in spite of a drop in support for him in the recent parliamentary elections.
Free Trade Threatens Affordable HIV Treatment
- Inter Press Service
With India's role as 'pharmacy to the developing world' seriously threatened by a free trade agreement to be signed with the European Union in December, the fate of cheap or free antiretroviral treatment for people living with HIV and AIDS hangs in balance.
DEVELOPMENT: Fate of Millions Hangs on Global Fund Pledges
- Inter Press Service
Sibongile Mavimbela has been living with HIV for the past 12 years; she has been on antiretrovirals for the past seven. But the mother of two fears the supply of free ARVs could dry up in the near future if contributions to the Global Fund on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria fall short of the $20 billion needed to meet development targets.
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