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Q&A: Tapping Women's Enterprise to Topple Rural Poverty
Paul Virgo interviews YUKIKO OMURA, new vice president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development
ROME, Mar 18 (IPS) - Employees at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) may have cause to fear for their jobs after Yukiko Omura was appointed vice president of the United Nations' rural poverty agency in February.
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VIETNAM: Salinisation, Drought Bring Worries to Mekong Delta
By Tran Dinh Thanh Lam
MEKONG DELTA, Vietnam, Mar 18 (IPS) - He has worked this land for half of 64 years and is known among his fellow farmers in Kien Giang province here in the Mekong Delta as ‘lao nong’, or the old master of rice.
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PAKISTAN : Attacks Bring Humanitarian Work to A Virtual Halt
By Ashfaq Yusufzai
Mar 18, PESHAWAR, Pakistan (IPS) - Bomb attacks and threats to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have brought development work to a virtual halt in the lawless, volatile environment that is the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), located near Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan.
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US-CHINA: Trade War Heats Up
By Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON, Mar 17 (IPS) - Relations between Beijing and Washington have been far from smooth since the beginning of the year.
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HAITI: Recovery Bill Estimated at 11.5 Billion Dollars
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON, Mar 17 (IPS) - Two weeks before a major donors conference, the Haitian government has estimated that the country will need some 11.5 billion dollars over the next three years to recover from the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake.
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POLITICS-RWANDA: Woman Vies for Top Job
By Stanley Kwenda
KIGALI, Mar 17 (IPS) - On average women constitute 18.8 percent of representatives in parliaments across the world according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). This gender imbalance has been subject to much feminist criticism and many campaigns for change have been staged to address the status quo. The situation is however different in Rwanda.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Unexpected Low Custom Revenue Causes Budget Shortfalls
By Servaas van den Bosch
WINDHOEK, Mar 17 (IPS) - Plummeting revenues from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) could cause severe financial difficulties in the region, economic experts warn. To make matters worse, the organisation is split over the future of its tariff pool that largely bankrolls the national budgets of its poorer members.
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LATIN AMERICA: NGOs Demand Transparency, Reforms in IDB
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY, Mar 17 (IPS) - Dozens of civil society organisations in the Americas are demanding greater transparency and accountability as well as structural reforms in the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), ahead of the multilateral lender's annual meeting of governors that starts Friday in the Mexican resort of Cancún.
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RIGHTS: EU Selling Torture Equipment
By David Cronin
BRUSSELS, Mar 17 (IPS) - Equipment designed for torturing prisoners is still being exported from European Union (EU) countries despite a four-year-old ban on such trade, according to a new report by Amnesty International.
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DEVELOPMENT: Spain’s New Drive to Extend its Interests in Africa
By Stanley Kwenda
PRETORIA, Mar 17 (IPS) - Spain is breaking new ground in its relations with Africa through an ambitious programme which has seen it increasing its development funding to the continent more than six-fold from 2004 to reach 1,4 billion euros in 2008.
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