Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 250
Increasing Economic Inequality Not Inevitable
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, May 13 (IPS) - Since the 1980s, the world has been moving once again to the greatest level of national level income inequalities observed in recorded human history. A study by the Credit Suisse Research Institute suggested that the income share of the rich has increased at the expense of the ‘middle class' in most of the world.
Progress of The World’s Least Developed Countries to be Reviewed
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 13 (IPS) - The United Nations will undertake a major review of progress made in the world's 48 Least Developed Countries (LDCs) later this month.
Breastfeeding Saves Lives But Can't Compete With Agressive Marketing
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 11 (IPS) - Despite its many lifesaving benefits breastfeeding still struggles to compete with the marketing used by the multi-billion dollar baby formula industry, according to a new report published this week.
OPINION: Greece, the Punching Ball of Germany
- Inter Press Service
ROME, May 11 (IPS) - Greece is again in the media, because a new negotiation is due between the embattled country and its creditors. The North-South divide of Europe is coming back with force (while the East-West relationship is increasingly looking as beyond repair). The German minister of Finance, Wolfgang Schäuble , has come back with his peculiar view of the economy as a branch of moral and ethical discipline, and not as a reading of reality. He has asked the Greeks "to not get distracted" by the refugees crisis, and not forget their primary task, which is to pay their debt. The request is to cut 2% of the Gross National Product; in case there will not be a 3.5% budget surplus within 2018.
Widening the STI Net for Implementation of the Sustainable Development Agenda
- Inter Press Service
Bangkok, May 11 (IPS) - Investment in science, technology and innovation (STI) needs to be the backbone of productivity-led economic recovery and sustainable development. Despite significant increases in productivity over the past few decades, economic growth in developing economies of Asia and the Pacific has been primarily driven by factor accumulation. However, the average rate of productivity growth slowed between 2000-2007 and 2008-2014 by 65%, which has contributed to the economic slowdown and can undermine efforts to effectively pursue the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We must revive growth in productivity, one of the keys to which is a highly-skilled labor force.
Mass Migration, EU, European Nationalisms
- Inter Press Service
Antwerp, Alfaz, May 11 (IPS) - We are dealing with mass migration, basically into EU, and European nationalisms, many in favor of exits from the EU.
Why this mass migration, maybe to the point of Völkerwanderung, mainly into EU–but then what kind of EU–and why the European nationalisms now found one way or the other in many member states?
Hunger, a Matter of Global Security
- Inter Press Service
ROME, May 11 (IPS) - Desperate, frustrated, and with little hope for the future, on 17h December 2010, the Tunisian Mohamed Bouazizi doused himself in petrol and set himself alight. Thus began the popular revolution that toppled the dictatorship of Zine El AbidineBen Ali, in power since 1987, and with it a domino effect that spread across North Africa and the Middle East.
Biomass Could Help Power Africa’s Energy Transition
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Uganda, May 11 (IPS) - As fuel, firewood remains the dominant source of energy in Uganda. It has a long history of being unsustainably harvested, leading to severe depletion of the country's forest cover. But with new technology, biomass is now cleaning up its act.
Kenyan Refugee Camp Closures will have Disastrous Consequences
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 11 (IPS) - The Kenyan government's decision to close its refugee camps will have disastrous consequences and must be reconsidered, international organisations have stated.
Climate Change Leaves Kashmir’s Economy High and Dry
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, India, May 10 (IPS) - Trudging barefoot on his two-acre piece of land, 57-year-old Mukhtar Ahmad has little hope of growing any crops this year due to the sudden dry spell that has struck Kashmir's winter.
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