Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 393
Behind the Climate Finance Headlines
- Inter Press Service
BONN, Germany, Jun 10 (IPS) - Developed countries report that they delivered more than 33 billion dollars in Fast Start Finance (known as FSF), beyond the pledges they made at COP 15 in Copenhagen in 2009. Recent analysis suggests that the funding delivered may have exceeded 38 billion dollars. But that is not the whole story.
Are Developing Countries Waving or Drowning?
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Jun 10 (IPS) - More than five years since the outbreak of the global financial crisis, the world economy has shown few signs of stabilising and moving towards strong and sustained growth.
Kenya’s Flower Farms No Bed of Roses
- Inter Press Service
NAIVASHA, Kenya, Jun 10 (IPS) - Catherine Mumbi knows the difficulties of working in Kenya's flower sector. She was fired as a casual worker at a flower farm after taking time off to recover from complications of the liver. But that was just the start of her problems.
Making a Business Out of Water Rationing
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Jun 09 (IPS) - For 61-year-old Sarah Chikwanha from water-starved Chitungwiza, a town about 25 kilometres outside Harare, Zimbabwe, there is no choice. She must buy her water from illegal water traders, whose businesses have sprung up across the country.
The Future of the Pacific Ocean Hangs in the Balance
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Jun 08 (IPS) - The immense scale of the Pacific Ocean at 165 million square kilometres inspires awe and fascination, but for those who inhabit the 22 Pacific island countries and territories, it is the very source of life. Without it, livelihoods and economies would collapse, hunger and ill-health would become endemic and human survival would be threatened.
Sierra Leone’s Child Trafficking to Blame for Street Kids
- Inter Press Service
FREETOWN, Jun 07 (IPS) - On a street corner in downtown Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital city, 12-year-old Kaita sits with a friend on a peeling steel railing watching the headlights of motorbikes cruising through the otherwise silent streets. It is after midnight, and motionless human forms lie curled up in doorways or stretched out on pavements nearby. For Kaita, these streets are home, and have been for almost six years.
Communication Blackout, Rights Abuses in Nigeria’s Emergency States
- Inter Press Service
LAGOS, Nigeria, Jun 07 (IPS) - Residents in the three Nigerian states where a state of emergency has been declared are living in fear as food prices soar and government soldiers conduct door to door campaigns to root out terrorists.
Looking to Cameroon’s Women Senators
- Inter Press Service
YAOUNDE, Jun 06 (IPS) - Marlyse Aboui, a 40-year-old nurse, has still not gotten over the astonishment she felt when she heard that Cameroon's President Paul Biya had nominated her to the senate.
Turkey's Excessive Neo-liberalism Threatens 'Peace at Home'
- Inter Press Service
ANKARA, Jun 05 (IPS) - "Peace at home, peace in the world" is the official motto of the Turkish Republic. Coined in 1931 by the republic's founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, it implies a causal relationship, but the events this week in Istanbul and dozens of other cities of Turkey suggest that causality can work in reverse order, too.
Quantitative Easing: Impact on Emerging and Developing Economies
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Jun 05 (IPS) - The global economy is awash with successive waves of liquidity generated over the past few years by the four most advanced economies, viz., the United States, the European Union, (EU), Japan and the United Kingdom, known as the G4. This liquidity has taken the form of "quantitative easing" (QE).
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