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News headlines for “WTO Doha “Development” Trade Round Collapse, 2006”, page 16
AGRICULTURE: Three-Quarters of Hungry Are Rural Poor
- Inter Press Service
Climate change, associated with a four-fold increase in natural disasters in the last decade, and the growth of world population, which is expected to reach nine billion by 2050, pose new challenges for aid initiatives like those of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).
URUGUAY: 'Dry Toilets' Provide Ecological Solution in Slums
- Inter Press Service
Marisabel's modest home had no plumbing, like the rest of the dwellings in this poor suburb on the outskirts of Montevideo, the capital of this small South American country.
DEVELOPMENT-AFRICA: Corruption: A Crime Against Development
- Inter Press Service
Corruption is preventing the world from reducing extreme poverty, from averting child deaths and even from fighting epidemics like HIV/AIDS.
GENDER: Zimbabwe Basket Fund Takes Off
- Inter Press Service
A basket fund aimed at increasing the economic participation of women in Zimbabwe, has been relaunched after a start which faltered due to the delayed appointment of the new government earlier this year.
ECONOMY-LEBANON: Skewed Policies Widen Urban-Rural Divide
- Inter Press Service
The luxury brands and fashion powerhouses that line the streets of the Lebanese capital seem to suggest that this country is enjoying an hour of glory as the world is in the throes of a severe recession.
POLITICS: U.N. in Final Push for 2015 Development Goals
- Inter Press Service
A special U.N. summit of world leaders, scheduled to take place next year, is expected to make 'a final push' to help reach the world body's widely-touted development goals by the targeted date of 2015.
DEVELOPMENT: To Grab, Or To Invest
- Inter Press Service
The World Food Security Summit in Rome this week opened up a dispute between what may be investment in farmland to some, but is seen as land grab by others.
DEVELOPMENT: Hunger Summit’s Failure Exposes Grim Reality
- Inter Press Service
There are two main ways the flop of this week’s United Nations World Food Security Summit in Rome - which has been snubbed by the world’s top leaders, has failed to deliver binding aid commitments, or to set a target date for the eradication of hunger - is being read.
DEVELOPMENT: Farmers Not Invited to Food Summit?
- Inter Press Service
World farmers are not part of the official delegations at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) food summit on food security that opened here Monday. But they came anyhow to express their views, since, they say, it is their communities that are most impacted by the food crisis.
DEVELOPMENT: Scandinavia, Ireland Tops in Humanitarian Aid
- Inter Press Service
Of the 22 major western donor nations, Norway, Sweden, Ireland and Denmark responded most effectively to humanitarian emergencies around the world in 2008, according to the latest of three annual assessments of humanitarian aid released here Tuesday by Development Assistance Research Associates (DARA).
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