Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 411
U.S. Urged to Reject New World Bank Focus on Large Infrastructure
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 19 (IPS) - A group of environmentalists, gender activists and international finance watchdogs are calling on the U.S. government to support calls for the World Bank to step back from a new programmatic focus on large-scale infrastructure, which critics say does little to help alleviate poverty.
‘Born in War, Grown up in War, Now Time for Rehabilitation’
- Inter Press Service
NZARA, South Sudan, Mar 19 (IPS) - Sungu Mizele, a Congolese national living in Yambio, in South Sudan's Western Equatoria state, earns a living selling the fruit and vegetables that she grows in her backyard, at the local town market. On average, she earns nine dollars a day. But on a good day, when she has fresh supplies, she can earn up to 31 dollars.
Several Countries Depend on Venezuela’s Oil Diplomacy
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 18 (IPS) - Venezuela's economic challenges, more than the uncertainty over who will succeed late president Hugo Chávez, could threaten the oil diplomacy he practiced in the region.
Russia to Get Venezuelan Oil for a Few Cents a Barrel
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Mar 18 (IPS) - Russian state oil firm Rosneft and Venezuela's PDVSA (Petróleos de Venezuela S.A.) have agreed to form a partnership to exploit an oilfield with estimated reserves of 40 billion barrels, strengthening the alliance between the two countries.
How to Break the Stalemate on Global Sustainability
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Mar 18 (IPS) - The current growth model is not sustainable. Neither the green economy nor alternative sources of energy can prevent global warming. Solutions will come from concerted actions at the local and national levels, from the adoption of instruments and practices borrowed from other disciplines like peacebuilding, and from the move to a "no-waste economy", according to experts here.
China Outsells UK in World's Lucrative Arms Bazaar
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 18 (IPS) - After ranking ahead of Japan as the world's second largest economy, China has reached another milestone: displacing the UK as the world's fifth largest arms supplier.
Dairy Farming Needs a Shot of Modernity
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Mar 16 (IPS) - Mohammad Ali's routine has not changed in over three decades. A small dairy farmer in the village of Aliabad, in the Narowal district of Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, he wakes at sunrise and walks to the barn to milk his three cows manually, stopping only for a breakfast of unleavened bread and tea heavily laced with milk before getting back to work.
Food Policies Failing the World's Hungry
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 16 (IPS) - The world's food security remains "vulnerable", new data suggests, with some 870 million people experiencing sustained hunger and two billion suffering from micronutrient deficiencies.
Sugar Playing Catch-Up With Spice
- Inter Press Service
KAMPOT, Cambodia, Mar 15 (IPS) - Dotted with rice fields flanked by palm trees, Cambodia's southeastern province of Kampong Speu is nothing short of picturesque.
But behind the idyllic exterior is an on-going struggle to turn this region's natural beauty into a global attraction and improve the lot of poor local farmers, as the neighbouring beachside Kampot province did just three years ago.
Transparency Could Tighten Drought Policy
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Mar 15 (IPS) - Scientists gathered in Geneva for the first High-level Meeting on National Drought Policy (HMNDP) in over 30 years have identified data collection and sharing as some of the main challenges to effective prevention of drought. Clear goals and strong political will are vital to building policies at the national level, they say.
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