Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 182
Europe Leads the Way in Development Index 2018
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Sep 27 (IPS) - Anita Käppeli is European Outreach Director at the Center for Global Development (CGD) & Lee Robinson is a researcher at the Center for Global Development. We just published the Commitment to Development Index (CDI) 2018, which ranks 27 of the world's richest countries on how well their policies help the more than five billion people living in poorer countries.
New Trade Realities Cause Concern
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, Sep 26 (IPS) - Trade liberalization, a key dimension of recent globalization, has failed to promote broad structural transformation in developing countries and has instead contributed to increased worldwide inequality, a new United Nations report shows.
Development of ICT Innovation Expected to Help in Fight Against Banana Disease in Rwanda
- Inter Press Service
KIGALI, Sep 25 (IPS) - When Telesphore Ruzigamanzi, a smallholder banana farmer from a remote village in Eastern Rwanda, discovered a peculiar yellowish hue on his crop before it started to dry up, he did not give it the due consideration it deserved.
The Revolutionary Ambition of AGRF 2018 Must be Sustained
- Inter Press Service
Sep 24 (IPS) - Korir Sing'Oei is Legal Advisor & Head of Policy at Office of Deputy President, KenyaIn early September 2018, about 2,800 delegates from 79 countries and high-level dignitaries, including current and former heads of states, international agencies, CEOs of global corporations and youth entrepreneurs, and techies involved in agriculture gathered in Kigali for this year's African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF).
Seize the Opportunity Offered by Africa’s Continental Free Trade Area, says UNIDO Chief
- Inter Press Service
VIENNA, Sep 24 (IPS) - LI Yong is Director General, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)Since the turn of the millennium, Africa has experienced a steady and unprecedented economic growth.
However, poverty continues for people across the continent, especially in the sub-Saharan region. Unemployment and inequality have remained high. The rural population and the urban poor, women and youth, have not benefited from economic growth.
Ethiopia’s Struggle Against Climate Change Gets a Boost from Green Climate Fund
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Sep 24 (IPS) - Faced with worsening droughts due to climate change, Ethiopia is joining an international initiative seeking to build global resilience against the problems caused by it, and enable developing countries to become part of a united solution to the ongoing problem.
Recognising the Debilitating Nature Conflict Has on Food Security
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Sep 21 (IPS) - Nyalen Kuong and her daughters fled to safety after an attack on their village in South Sudan in which Kuong's husband and two sons where killed and the family's cattle lost. Kuong, her daughters and other families from their village fled to islands surrounded by swamp land. There, she had little to eat. And soon began suffering from diarrhoea, brought on by acute malnutrition.
The Cambodian Port City on China’s 21st Century Silk Road That’s Becoming the New Macau
- Inter Press Service
SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia, Sep 19 (IPS) - Kris Janssens is a Belgian reporter based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. His goal is to tell extraordinary stories about ordinary people throughout Southeast Asia.The new Macau. That's what the Cambodian coastal city Sihanoukville is called nowadays. Chinese investors are building casinos there on a massive scale.
The southern port city lies on the new Silk Road (the so called 'One Belt, One Road') and is therefore interesting for China.
The Cambodian government is happy to accept the money. And Beijing never asks difficult questions.
In the Race to Achieve Zero Hunger and Mitigate Climate Change, We Must Look Down — to the Soil
- Inter Press Service
ILLINOIS, United States, Sep 18 (IPS) - Esther Ngumbi is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at Auburn University in Alabama. She was the 2015 Clinton Global University (CGI U) Mentor for Agriculture and 2015 New Voices Fellow at the Aspen Institute.Recently, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN FAO) Director-General José Graziano da Silva urged countries, scientists, policymakers and stakeholders invested in building an equitable, sustainable, and thriving planet to pay attention to the soil. He further noted that the future of the planet depends on how healthy the soils of today are.
Another global financial crisis for developing countries?
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY & KUALA LUMPUR, Sep 18 (IPS) - George Soros, Bill Gates and other pundits have been predicting another financial crisis. In their recent book, Revolution Required: The Ticking Bombs of the G7 Model, Peter Dittus and Herve Hamoun, former senior officials of the Bank of International Settlements, warned of ‘ticking time bombs' in the global financial system waiting to explode, mainly due to the policies of major developed countries.
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