Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 427
Internal Audit Warns of IMF Politicisation by the U.S.
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 20 (IPS) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s internal auditor has criticised the Fund's recent policy on foreign currency reserves, and has offered an implicit warning that the United States' outsized influence within the institution has resulted in policy that was insufficiently evidence-based.
Curbing Tanzania’s “Land Grabbing Race”
- Inter Press Service
, Dic 19 (IPS) - From January 2013, Tanzania will start restricting the size of land that single large-scale foreign and local investors can "lease" for agricultural use. The decision follows both local and international criticism that major investors are grabbing large chunks of land here, often displacing small-scale farmers and local communities.
BRICS Tracking Where the Money Flows
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Dic 19 (IPS) - The five leading developing nations grouped in the BRICS alliance – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – are planning to intensify efforts to collect accurate trade data, so they can get a better picture of trade flows.
Ahead of Mali Resolution, Worries Grow over Military Intervention
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 18 (IPS) - Even as U.S. and French officials suggest that a United Nations resolution on military intervention in Mali could come by the end of the week, concerns are rising that such action could do far more harm than good.
Farmers Need to Grow Climate Smart
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Dic 18 (IPS) - Farmers cannot wait much longer for negotiators to reach an agreement on including a work programme on agriculture in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. And until one is approved, "it will continue to be difficult for farmers to produce the food needed, and at the same time reduce greenhouse gas emissions."
Financial Crimes Cost Developing World At Least a Trillion Dollars
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 18 (IPS) - The developing world lost nearly one trillion dollars in 2010 as a result of corruption, tax evasion, and other financial crimes not involving cash transactions, according to a new report released here Monday by Global Financial Integrity (GFI).
Environmental Uncertainties Halt Deep Sea Mining
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Dic 17 (IPS) - The world's first deep sea mineral (DSM) mining venture in the Bismarck Sea off the northern coast of Papua New Guinea in the southwest Pacific has come to a halt after two years of development.
Urgent Action Is Needed to Restore Growth
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Dic 17 (IPS) - The global economy weakened significantly towards the end of 2011 and further downward pressure emerged in the course of 2012. The growth rate of global output, which had already decelerated from 4.1 percent in 2010 to 2.7 percent in 2011, is expected to slow down even more in 2012 to around 2.3 per cent. Developed economies as a whole are likely to grow by only slightly more than one per cent in 2012, owing mainly to the recession currently gripping the European Union (EU).
South-South Political Alliances Yet to Influence Business
- Inter Press Service
JOHNNESBURG, Dic 17 (IPS) - Politicians in the leading developing nations have been active in boosting mutual ties, as one way of counterbalancing the influence of the developed world. But the economic success of the Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa and the India, Brazil, and South Africa groupings will depend on the extent to which businesses take advantage of the new opportunities which are being created.
Some Côte d'Ivoire Women Don’t Want Joint Responsibility for Family
- Inter Press Service
ABIDJAN, Dic 14 (IPS) - After 17 years of women struggling for parity with men in the household, Côte d'Ivoire's legislature has finally adopted a law which establishes equal responsibility for legally married spouses. But not everyone is happy.
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