Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 141
Financialization Increases Inequality
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR and PENANG, Feb 04 (IPS) - Financialization has worsened inequality through various channels, including macroeconomic policies. For example, quantitative easing and low, if not negative interest rates have fuelled credit and asset price bubbles, while fiscal spending cuts have adversely affected those depending on government assistance.
Women & Girls Up Front — the Humanitarian Response in Democratic Republic of Congo
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA / JOHANNESBURG / KINSHASA, Feb 04 (IPS) - Eleven-year-old "Anne" went to a health facility with her mother in the conflict-affected province of Ituri, in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. At first, she could barely tell her story.
Digital Civil Registration Can Reduce the Number of ‘Invisible’ People and Bring Kenya Closer to the SDGs
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 03 (IPS) - A recent opinion piece in the New York Times titled, "Kenya's New Digital IDs May Exclude Millions of Minorities" raises an issue that the UN is passionate about: that the pursuit of sustainable development should leave no one behind.
Inclusive Education Still Evades People with Disabilities
- Inter Press Service
DJIBOUTI CITY, Jan 29 (IPS) - Neema Namdamu, 42, grew up in the village of Bukavu in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo where children with disabilities were considered a curse.
As a child Namdamu contracted polio, leaving her paralysed from the waist down. Her neighbours advised her mother to do what they felt was the "right thing": leave the child alone in a hut until she died of starvation.
Kenya Leapfrogging on 4 SDGS- Building Bridges Between Silicon Savannah and Silicon Valley
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 29 (IPS) - One year ago, the UN began implementing reforms meant to make it more effective in delivering on sustainable development. Now, with the start of 2020, the global body has declared this as the "decade of action" to turn the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into a living reality for all humanity. But what does this look like, on the ground?
Exchange Rate Undervaluation for Export-Led Growth Promotion
- Inter Press Service
BERLIN and KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 28 (IPS) - One mercantilist view is that exchange rate undervaluation – e.g., via accumulation of foreign exchange reserves in China's case – is ‘industrial policy' to promote export-led growth, benefiting producers of exports while discouraging imports.
Multilateralism Versus Regionalism: Which Path Should African Countries Pursue to Expand Trade and Investment Opportunities?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 28 (IPS) - Increasingly, the ability of multilateralism to address contemporary global issues such as climate change and international trade is being questioned.
African Nations Caught in Conflict Re-commit to Inclusive Education
- Inter Press Service
DJIBOUTI CITY, Jan 27 (IPS) - Djibouti's President Ismail Omar Guelleh knows that his country is in need of an education system that is, "innovative, based on universal principles and values and adaptive of the local realities".
Balanced and Gender-Inclusive Education is a Smart Investment
- Inter Press Service
DJIBOUTI CITY, Jan 27 (IPS) - Fihima Mohamed's mother never attended school and until two years ago she could not read or write. Mohamed's mother had been born in neighbouring Somalia but was sent to Djibouti as a young girl to live with her aunt. The expectation had been that she would have a better life by escaping the ongoing conflict in her home country at the time.
Biofortified Crops Improve Farmers’ Livelihoods in Zimbabwe
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Zimbabwe, Jan 27 (IPS) - Steven Seremwe, who is 57 years old, was retrenched from his job as an administrator at Lake Shore Missions in 2012. He decided to focus on farming, and he started growing various crops—white maize, sugar beans, and sweet potatoes, among others—for consumption and sale.
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