Global Issues
News headlines for “Global Financial Crisis”, page 421
Opinion: South-South Cooperation Vital for Sustainable Development
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, May 08 (IPS) - Sustainable development is central to a range of key discussions at the United Nations and elsewhere at the moment.
Living the Indigenous Way, from the Jungles to the Mountains
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, May 08 (IPS) - In the course of human history many tens of thousands of communities have survived and thrived for hundreds, even thousands, of years. Scores of these largely self-sustaining traditional communities continue to this day in remote jungles, forests, mountains, deserts, and in the icy regions of the North. A few remain completely isolated from modern society.
Unifying Transmission from North to South Means Cheaper Energy in Chile
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, May 07 (IPS) - Chile expects to have a more efficient and stable electricity market, with a more steady - and above all, less expensive – supply, when the country's two major power grids are interconnected over a distance of more than 3,000 km.
Falling Oil Prices Trigger Initial Economic Gains for Pacific Islanders
- Inter Press Service
CANBERRA, Australia, May 06 (IPS) - The recent dramatic fall in world oil prices, with Brent crude plummeting from a high of 115 dollars per barrel in June last year to around 47 dollars in January 2015, is beginning to benefit Pacific Islanders who are seeing lower prices for fuel and energy.
Sri Lanka’s Development Goals Fall Short on Gender Equality
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, May 05 (IPS) - When Rosy Senanayake, Sri Lanka's minister of state for child affairs, addressed the U.N. Commission on Population and Development (CPD) in New York last month, she articulated both the successes and shortcomings of gender equality in a country which prided itself electing the world's first female head of government: Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike in July 1960.
Costa Rica’s Energy Nearly 100 Percent Clean
- Inter Press Service
SAN JOSE, May 05 (IPS) - Costa Rica has almost reached its goal of an energy mix based solely on renewable sources, harnessing solar, wind and geothermal power, as well as the energy of the country's rivers.
Families in Quake-Hit Nepal Desperate to Get on With Their Lives
- Inter Press Service
KAVRE DISTRICT, Nepal, May 05 (IPS) - Just over a week after a dreadful 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked Nepal, displaced families are gradually – but cautiously – resuming their normal lives, though most are still badly shaken by the disaster and the proceeding aftershocks that devastated the country.
EU Calls for Paradigm Shift in Development Cooperation
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, May 05 (IPS) - In the run-up to the international Conference on Financing for Development from Jul. 13 to 16 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the European Union has called for a "true paradigm shift" in global development cooperation.
Opinion: Healthy Diets for Healthy Lives
- Inter Press Service
ROME, May 05 (IPS) - In the last half-century, people's lifestyles have changed dramatically. Life expectancy has risen almost everywhere, but this has been accompanied by an increase of so-called non-communicable diseases (NCDs) – such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, respiratory diseases, and diabetes – causing more and more deaths in all corners of the world.
In India, a Broken System Leaves a ‘Broken’ People Powerless
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, May 04 (IPS) - As India paid glowing tributes to Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, the architect of its constitution and a champion of the downtrodden, on his 122nd birth anniversary last month, public attention also swivelled to the glaring social and economic discrimination that plagues the lives of lower-caste or ‘casteless' communities – who comprise over 16 percent of the country's 1.2 billion people.
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