Globalisation

OPINION: Delivering on the Promises of the Global Partnership for Development

By Wu Hongbo
Persistent gaps between the promises made, and actually delivered, by developed countries to developing countries, hold back efforts to improve people’s lives and end poverty.

The Changing Face of Caribbean Migration

By Jewel Fraser
Ruth Osman is attractive and well-groomed in tailored slacks and a patterned blouse, topped by a soft jacket worn open. Her demeanour and polished accent belie the stereotypical view that most Caribbean nationals have of Guyanese migrants.

Water: A Defining Issue for Post-2015

By Amantha Perera
A gift of nature, or a valuable commodity? A human right, or a luxury for the privileged few? Will the agricultural sector or industrial sector be the main consumer of this precious resource? Whatever the answers to these and many more questions, one thing is clear: that water will be one of the defining issues of the coming decade.

Only the Crazy and Economists Believe Growth is Endless

By Justin Hyatt
From the mid-20th century onwards, economic growth has come to count as a self-evident goal in economic policies and GDP to be seen as the most important index for measuring economic activities.

Half a Century of Struggle Against Underdevelopment

By Pablo Piacentini
The idea of creating Inter Press Service (IPS) arose in the early 1960s in response to awareness that a vacuum existed in the world of journalism, which had two basic aspects.

Free Economic Zone Plan Slammed as ‘Suicide’ Pact for Taiwan Farmers

By Dennis Engbarth
The Taiwan government’s plan to liberalise tariff-free imports of agricultural produce from China and other countries for processing in free economic pilot zones, which will then be exported as ‘Made in Taiwan’ items, may mean suicide for Taiwanese farmers if approved by the national legislature.

Global Summit Urged to Focus on Trillion-Dollar Corruption

By Carey L. Biron
New analysis suggests that developing countries are losing a trillion dollars or more each year to tax evasion and corruption facilitated by lax laws in Western countries, raising pressure on global leaders to agree to broad new reforms at an international summit later this year.

OPINION: Sanctions and Retaliations: Simply Unconscionable

By Somar Wijayadasa
The crisis in Ukraine is a man-made disaster created by world leaders who have been trying to pull Ukraine apart - either towards Europe or Russia.

OPINION: Civil Society Calls For Impartial Inquiry on Air Crash and Catastrophe in Ukraine

By Alice Slater
It is ironic that at this moment in history when so many people and nations around the world are acknowledging the 100th anniversary of our planet’s hapless stumble into World War I, great powers and their allies are once again provoking new dangers where governments appear to be sleepwalking towards a restoration of old Cold War battles.

Why Principle Matters at UN Human Rights Council

By Mandeep S.Tiwana
The killings of hundreds of civilians, including scores of children, in Gaza – whose only fault was to have been born on the wrong side of the wall – was a major point of contention at the United Nations Human Rights Council at the end of July.

Africa-U.S. Summit – Catching Up With China?

By Demba Moussa Dembele
A few years ago, nobody could have imagined that some 50 Heads of States and Prime Ministers from Africa would meet the President of the United States for a summit. Yet, the first Africa/United States Summit took place in Washington from August 4 to 6, making headlines around the world.

OPINION: Towards a Global Governance Platform

By Ramesh Jaura
Inter Press Service News Agency has braved severe political assaults and financial tempests since 1964, when Roberto Savio and Pablo Piacentini laid its foundation as a unique and challenging information and communication system.

Cuba Sees Its Future in Mariel Port, Hand in Hand with Brazil

By Patricia Grogg
The Mariel special economic development zone, the biggest construction project undertaken in decades in Cuba, emerged thanks to financial support from Brazil, which was based on political goodwill, a strategy of integration, and business vision.

What’s More Important, the War on AIDS or Just War?

By Kanya D'Almeida and Mercedes Sayagues
They say there is a war on and its target is the deadly human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).   

Youth Suicides Sound Alarm Across the Pacific

By Catherine Wilson
Suicide rates in the Pacific Islands are some of the highest in the world and have reached up to 30 per 100,000 in countries such as Samoa, Guam and Micronesia, double the global average, with youth rates even higher.

Atom Bomb Anniversary Spotlights Persistent Nuclear Threat

By Suvendrini Kakuchi
It has been 69 years, but the memory is fresh in the minds of 190,000 survivors and their descendants. It has been 69 years but a formal apology has yet to be issued. It has been 69 years – and the likelihood of it happening all over again is still a frightening reality.

Asia Looks to Innovation to Achieve Sustainability

By Neena Bhandari
Innovation in the fields of renewable energy, food production, water conservation, education and health will be crucial for the developing economies of Asia to meet the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The ‘Global’ Land Rush

By Anuradha Mittal
The first years of the twenty-first century will be remembered for a global land rush of nearly unprecedented scale.

Analysis: Ten Reasons for Saying ‘No’ to the North Over Trade

By Ravi Kanth Devarakonda and Phil Harris
India’s decisive stand last week not to adopt the protocol of amendment of the trade facilitation agreement (TFA) unless credible rules were in place for the development issues of the South was met with  "astonishment" and "dismay" by trade diplomats from the North, who described New Delhi’s as "hostage-taking" and "suicidal". 

Cameroon’s Muslim Clerics Turn to Education to Shun Boko Haram

By Ngala Killian Chimtom
Motari Hamissou used to get along well with his pupils at the government primary school in Sabga, an area in Bamenda, the capital of Cameroon’s North West Region. In the past, Hamissou also lived in peace with his neighbours. No one was bothered by his long, thick beard or the veil his wife, Aisha Hamissou, wore, or the religion they followed.

Trade Facilitation Will Support African Industrialisation

By Roberto Azevêdo
In the 1960s, there were high hopes for the development of the newly-independent sub-Saharan African countries but these hopes were quickly dashed following a series of shocks which began in the mid-70s, with the first oil price spikes, followed by a severe decline in growth and increase in poverty in the 80s and early 90s.
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