News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 891
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.
HAITI: Hurricanes and the River Flowing
- Inter Press Service
In the evening the lowering clouds burst. Through the night they loosed their torrents on the southeastern coast of Haiti.
Hersey Chocolate Linked to Child Labour
- Inter Press Service
Hershey, one of the largest chocolate manufacturers in the U.S., is lagging behind other companies in taking steps to ensure decent working conditions in its supply chain, charges a new report.
ECONOMY-PAKISTAN: As Floods Recede, Hope Emerges in Next Crop
- Inter Press Service
'The Indus (River) showed us who this country belongs to — and that is, to the Indus,' declares economist Haris Gazdar, referring to the recent deluge that wrought untold devastation to Pakistan. 'We must respect rivers and not treat them with the contempt we show towards everything else.'
U.S.: Money for Prisons, Not for Social Services
- Inter Press Service
Many of those who have lost their jobs and homes in the United States due to the lingering economic recession are ending up in jail, according to a new study released by an independent think tank Thursday.
One in Seven U.S. Citizens Sank into Poverty
- Inter Press Service
Poverty rates in the United States have climbed to their highest level since 1994, according to a report released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Hunger Drops Mere Half a Percent over Last Decade
- Inter Press Service
Ten years after setting the goal of halving the proportion of people suffering from poverty and hunger by 2015, only mixed success can be found for the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and the degree of success is dependent not only on what country is examined but which evaluation is used.
BRAZIL: Small-scale Palm Oil Production Is Women's Work Too
- Inter Press Service
'This isn't women's work,' they told her. But Benedita Nascimento is now one of the most outstanding success stories of a family farming programme involving palm oil production in Brazil's eastern Amazon jungle.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Small Amounts of Cash Make a Big Difference
- Inter Press Service
After being diagnosed HIV-positive Margaret Bikyele could not even manage the simplest of household chores, let alone being able work to generate an income for her and her two sons. Since her diagnosis in 2005 and in the years that followed, the Bikyele family’s prospects in life had looked bleak. That is until Bikyele became the recipient of a social cash transfer scheme in 2007 and began receiving 10 dollars a month.
ECONOMY-SOUTHERN AFRICA: Threat of States Collapsing Looms Large
- Inter Press Service
The mooted restructuring of the revenue-sharing agreement of the world’s oldest customs union could lead to at least two of its Southern African members collapsing into 'failed states' status as well as macroeconomic crises in two of their neighbours in the sub-region.
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