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TECHNOLOGY: Rare Metals Could Trigger Next Trade War
By Emilio Godoy*
MEXICO CITY - Used in electric car motors and wind turbines, neodymium, a "rare earth metal," is at the epicentre of the race between wealthy and emerging nations to create green technologies, while poorer countries appear to be relegated to spectator status.
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HEALTH: Climate Change Brings New Diseases
By Julio Godoy
BERLIN - As its name suggests, the West Nile virus, a leading cause of a form of meningitis and a neuro-invasive disease, has until recently been reported mostly in tropical and sub-tropical African regions. But it is now about to become a global virus.
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Q&A: "The Global Crisis Is Really About a 140-dollar Barrel of Oil"*
Chris Arsenault interviews economist JEFF RUBIN
VANCOUVER - Sitting in the restaurant of Vancouver’s posh Fairmount Waterfront Hotel, the former chief economist for one of Canada’s largest banks doesn’t seem like the typical apocalyptic peak oil theorist.
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LABOUR: ILO Urges Action on Financial Speculation
By Feizal Samath
GENEVA - World leaders, employers and trade unionists, meeting here at a crisis summit on employment, welcomed a new ‘Global Jobs Pact’, but warned that any delay in its implementation would worsen the problems created by financial speculation.
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DEVELOPMENT: Local Currencies Really Can Buy Happiness
By Matthew Cardinale*
ATLANTA, Georgia - In the face of an economic system which seems to be premised on environmental harm and profit-driven growth, a handful of communities across the U.S. and the globe have begun experimenting with alternative forms of local currency as a pathway to sustainability.
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ECONOMY: 'Africa Should Seize Control over its Development'
By Annelise Sander
GENEVA - Colonisation can be blamed for Africa's underdevelopment but today Africans must take their fate in their own hands and become ambitious. The continent badly needs industrialisation but it has fallen back into the trap of merely exporting commodities because of booming prices.
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EUROPE: Victims of Trafficking Need More than Words
By Zoltán Dujisin
PALERMO, Italy - A flawed political and economic order that has failed to create effective migration policies is behind the rise of trafficking in persons and the difficulties in tackling it effectively, leading campaigners say.
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Q&A: Global Crisis Is an Opportunity for Economic Renewal
Annelise Sander interviews HAKIM BEN HAMMOUDA, author of a new book on the global economic crisis
GENEVA - The global economic crisis may spell the end of the Washington Consensus and the structural adjustment programmes imposed on the South and lead to the emergence of new economic powers, the so-called ‘‘Next 11’’, of which some will be in Africa.
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WORLD-ECONOMY: IMF Using Global Crisis to "Re-Launch" Itself
By Christi van der Westhuizen
CAPE TOWN - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is attempting to reinvent itself with the global financial crisis, in the process using the opportunity to promote policies that exacerbate the recession by shrinking rather than growing economies.
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MIGRATION: Human Beings Can't Be 'Illegal', Book Argues
By Ben Case
NEW YORK - Julio Guerrero came from Mexico to the U.S. state of North Carolina on a legal, H2-A temporary visa to work on a tobacco farm in 2002. After only a few weeks on the job, his fingers began to hurt and before long his fingernails had fallen off.
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MAY DAY: Europeans Begin to See Red
By Julio Godoy
ATHENS - European unions are facing a difficult choice this May Day between holding protests to protect workers' interests, or holding off to avoid a further deepening of the economic recession.
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US-LATAM: We Can't Be Trapped by History
By Peter Richards
PORT OF SPAIN - President Barack Obama had promised that his administration would be different. His, he said, would be a listening, caring one, even though like previous United States leaders, he came to the Fifth Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago bearing gifts - no doubt hoping for support for his new initiatives.
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G20: Next Time, Perhaps...
Analysis by Sanjay Suri
LONDON - If the draft declaration of the G20 meeting in London is anything to go by, the most specific outcome of this summit is that there will be another one later in the year.
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The international flow of capital and the emergence of diverse blocs and alliances are dramatically reshaping lives and the environment all around us, with the world's poorest paying the price of prosperity for the few. But the globalisation process offers unprecedented advantages too. Since WWII the possibilities for international cultural, social and economic interaction have increased at an explosive rate. The effects of these trends on trade, geopolitics, environment, media and many other fields are interconnected and extremely complex. IPS news agency seeks to analyse the free trade initiatives' impact on the individual, as well as the behaviour of corporations, international finance institutions and the multilateral system, giving visibility to the perspectives of a more diverse range of people, including civil society and the individual.