Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 228
Climate Change Needn’t Spell Doom for Uganda’s Coffee Farmers
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Dec 22 (IPS) - Coffee production provides a quarter of Uganda's foreign exchange earnings and supports some 1.7 million smallholder farmers, but crop yields are being undermined by disease, pests and inadequate services from agricultural extension officers, as well as climatic changes in the East African country.
Stop worrying about ‘Doing Business’ ranking
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 22 (IPS) - Without any hint of irony, the World Bank's most recent Doing Business Report 2017 promises ‘Equal Opportunity for All'. Bangladesh ranked 176th among 190 economies, below civil war-ravaged Iraq and Syria! Bangladesh even slipped two places from 174 in the 2016 ranking and is three places below its 2015 ranking.
Ethiopia Takes a Deep and Foreboding Breath
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Dec 21 (IPS) - Smart phone users in the Ethiopian capital are rejoicing. After a two-month blackout the Ethiopian government has permitted the return of mobile data.
Refugees from Boko Haram Languish in Cameroon
- Inter Press Service
MINAWAO CAMP, Cameroon, Dec 16 (IPS) - Tears spring to Aichatou Njoya's eyes as she recalls the day Islamic militants from Boko Haram arrived on her doorstep in Nigeria.
More of the Same: World Bank Doing Business Report Continues to Mislead
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 15 (IPS) - The World Bank's Doing Business Report 2017, subtitled ‘Equal Opportunity for All', continues to mislead despite the many criticisms, including from within, levelled against the Bank's most widely read publication, and Bank management promises of reform for many years.
Putting Women Front and Centre in the Development Agenda
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 12 (IPS) - Reengineering the framework of support by bringing in women as new actors in effective development cooperation will play a pivotal role in achieving the 2030 Agenda for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
New Anti-Corruption Leader Takes the Helm in Ghana
- Inter Press Service
KUMASI, Ghana, Dec 11 (IPS) - Ghanaian opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo has made history as the first son of a former president to lead the West African country, beating incumbent President John Mahama in the 2016 presidential elections held on Wednesday, Dec. 7.
Why Achieving Sdg Goal 8 on Decent Work and Economic Growth Is Critical for Kenya
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 09 (IPS) - In Kenya the Gini coefficient of inequality is at around 0.45%. Therefore, the economic growth statistics present an unequivocal picture of a highly unequal society, whose development strategy is largely leading to accumulation of wealth by a few and worsening the poverty of the majority.
Fiscal austerity has been blocking economic recovery
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Dec 08 (IPS) - Instead of concerted and sustained efforts for a strong, sustained economic recovery to overcome protracted stagnation, the near policy consensus on fiscal austerity in the G7 and the G20 OECD countries, except for the US and Japan, has dragged down economic recovery in developing countries.
Rethinking trade policy and protectionism in the Trump era
- Inter Press Service
PENANG, Dec 05 (IPS) - What kind of trade policy will the United States have under President Donald Trump? This is a hot issue, as Trump has made unorthodox pronouncements on trade issues during and after the election campaign. If he acts on even some of the positions he took, it will create a sea change in trade policy in the US and possibly the world.
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