Global Issues
News headlines for “WTO Doha “Development” Trade Round Collapse, 2006”, page 11
Math Doesn't Add Up to Keep School Doors Open
- Inter Press Service
As donors meet this week to allocate funds for global education, advocates warn that diminished support has forced many poor countries to consider closing schools and sacking teachers.
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.
World Bank Extends Food Crisis Fund
- Inter Press Service
Amidst fears of a recurring food crisis, the World Bank has reactivated its Global Food Crisis Response Programme (GFRP), dedicating up to 760 million dollars to countries at risk of food price volatility.
Ending Africa's Hunger Means Listening to Farmers
- Inter Press Service
Africa is hungry - 240 million people are undernourished. Now, for the first-time, small African farmers have been properly consulted on how to solve the problem of feeding sub-Saharan Africa. Their answers appear to directly repudiate a massive international effort to launch an African Green Revolution funded in large part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
U.N. to Focus on Poorest of the World's Poor
- Inter Press Service
The United Nations, which is planning to hold a major international conference on Least Developed Countries (LDCs) next year, has been put on notice: if the mounting social and economic problems of poorer nations are not resolved, 'There will be no peace and stability in the world.'
World Bank Pressured over Record Fossil Fuels Lending
- Inter Press Service
With new figures showing a record amount of World Bank funding for projects relying on coal power and other fossil fuels, the issue of reforming the institution's energy lending was once again a hot topic at the World Bank and IMF annual meetings, which concluded over the weekend.
DEVELOPMENT: Obama Lays Out Vision, Details Still Blurry
- Inter Press Service
Following U.S. President Barack Obama's introduction of his long-awaited Global Development Policy on Wednesday, exactly one year after he told member states that he would return with a plan to make the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) a reality, questions remain over how it will be executed.
$40 Billion for Women and Children, Millions of Lives at Stake
- Inter Press Service
As a three-day anti-poverty talkfest drew to a close Wednesday, the United Nations shifted its focus from the poor and the hungry to two of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in society: women and children.
DEVELOPMENT: A Fat Cat Tax for Lean Times
- Inter Press Service
As world leaders convened Monday for the first day of a summit dedicated to resuscitate efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the question of how to finance countries' acceleration efforts looms large.
DEVELOPMENT: U.N. Chief Looks Beyond 2015 Deadline
- Inter Press Service
As more than 140 world leaders began a three-day anti-poverty summit meeting Monday, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon looked far beyond the 2015 deadline for sustainable development the world is desperately in need of.
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