News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 890
AFRICA: Services Should Only be Liberalised If Properly Regulated
- Inter Press Service
With African countries' trade remaining inordinately dependent on natural resources exports, their economies could benefit from liberalisation of trade in services but only as long as proper domestic regulatory frameworks are put in place, some trade experts argue.
CHINA: Second Richest Plays Poor
- Inter Press Service
As China basks in international praise for its spectacular economic transformation over the last 30 years, some shadow sides of this story of triumph have begun to emerge.
INDIA: Jatropha Boom Yields Tough Lessons
- Inter Press Service
With a gas-guzzler of an economy, India had been spending tens of billions of dollars annually to import petroleum. And so its 2009 policy on biofuels mandated that by 2017, India would have enough biofuel production to cover at least 20 percent of the country’s oil consumption.
DEVELOPMENT: Bridging the Chasm Between Rhetoric and Reality
- Inter Press Service
On the eve of Monday's highly-anticipated U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Summit in which world leaders will gather here to reaffirm their commitment to the eight goals, civil society remains deeply sceptical.
Inequality, Chile's Bicentennial Challenge
- Inter Press Service
Chile is celebrating 200 years of independence as one of the Latin American countries with the lowest proportion of poor people, but also one of the most unequal.
ARGENTINA: 'A Casino Is Not Progress'
- Inter Press Service
A small fishing community in the northern Argentine province of Chaco is pressing for a sustainable development programme to preserve their simple way of life and the natural habitat, rather than a mega-investment project that would draw upscale tourism instead of the people who now come to seek peace and quiet on the weekends.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Social Protection, a Human Right?
- Inter Press Service
Without contributions from well wishers and government grants of between 68 and 104 dollars per month per child, the House of Mother and Child in Ennerdale, south of Johannesburg, would barely be able to provide for the 18 vulnerable children who call the place home.
BRAZIL: Development Trumps Environment on Election Agenda
- Inter Press Service
With Brazil's elections only about a fortnight away, there is already a clear winner: 'developmentalism.' This position espoused by the two main presidential candidates has relegated pressing environmental issues to a lowly place on the campaign agenda, in spite of the fact that the third contender represents the Green Party (PV).
AFRICA: 'Future Lies in a Free Trade Area From Cape To Cairo'
- Inter Press Service
African governments’ ambitious plan for a tripartite free trade area (FTA), stretching from South Africa to Egypt, could be more realistic than getting existing ineffective regional customs unions on the continent to work.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Paying for Social Protection
- Inter Press Service
Despite the Southern Africa region sustaining an annual growth rate of six percent, the U.N. Summit on the Millennium Development Goals will hear that the majority of Southern Africans remain among the poorest people in the world.
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