Global Issues
News headlines for “Global Financial Crisis”, page 460
Inside Pakistan's Untapped Fishing Industry
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Nov 04 (IPS) - If you want to know what ‘sea traffic' looks like, just go down to the Karachi Harbour. Built in 1959, the dockyard houses close to 2,000 big and small boats anchored in the grey sludge at the edge of Pakistan's southern port city, which opens into the Arabian Sea.
Middle-Income Kenya Still in Need of Aid
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Nov 04 (IPS) - Coffee farmer Gabriel Kimwaki from Nyeri County, in central Kenya, is considering "giving up farming altogether".
Global Tax-Evasion Crackdown Sidestepping Poorest Countries
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 04 (IPS) - While a major global campaign to cut down on tax evasion is picking up momentum, anti-poverty advocates say the initiative overlooks the world's poorest countries.
U.N. Favours Changeover from Landlocked to ‘Land-linked’
- Inter Press Service
VIENNA, Nov 04 (IPS) - Some 440 million people are living in 32 countries that are among the world's poorest, most of them least developed, and geographically isolated from world markets not only because they have very few commodities to export, but also because they have no direct territorial access to the sea.
Dirty Energy, Dirty Tactics
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Nov 03 (IPS) - "Greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are higher than ever, and we're seeing more and more extreme weather and climate events….We can't prevent a large scale disaster if we don't heed this kind of hard science."
Mobile Payments to Determine Future of Global Economy
- Inter Press Service
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, Nov 03 (IPS) - Half the global working age population does not have a bank account, yet six billion people have access to a mobile phone. Ninety percent of people in developing countries have mobile phone subscriptions and 84 percent have signed up to mobile broadband subscriptions.
Using Phytotechnology to Remedy Damage Caused by Mining
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Nov 03 (IPS) - Combating the negative effects of its own production processes is one of the challenges facing the mining industry, one of the pillars of the Chilean economy.
OPINION: The Pentagon Comes Up Short on Climate
- Inter Press Service
Fredericksburg, VIRGINIA, Nov 01 (IPS) - The Pentagon recently released a new report sounding the alarm on the national security threats posed by climate change. Like previous reports on the subject, this one makes clear that Department of Defence (DoD) planners believe that global warming will seriously challenge our nation's military forces.
OPINION: One Mexico, or Many?
- Inter Press Service
SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, Mexico, Nov 01 (IPS) - Mexico can charm, irritate, wound, inspire and confuse the casual visitor as well as the informed researcher. But no one is ever left indifferent by it. Mexico leaves an indelible mark.
Child Poverty in Spain Seen Through the Eyes of Encarni
- Inter Press Service
MÃLAGA, Spain, Nov 01 (IPS) - "I would like to have a big house, and I wish my family didn't have to go out and ask for food or clothes," Encarni, who just turned 12, tells IPS in the small apartment she shares with five other family members in a poor neighbourhood in the southern Spanish city of Málaga.
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