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G8: Doha Deal Begins to Look Nearer
Clear signs are emerging at the G8 summit here of progress towards concluding new terms for international trade.G8: The Five Throw a Challenge
"The world needs a new global governance," the G5 declared Wednesday, "the construction of which must be based on inclusive multilateralism." As rhetoric goes, this might sound like more of the same. But the time and place of that declaration gave the words a new significance.POLITICS-INDIA: Waiting to Hear Clinton on AfPak, China
It is hard to say whether U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will find herself being quizzed more on Washington's 'AfPak' strategy to contain global terror or her appeasement of a financially muscular China, when she lands in India mid-July.G8: Politely, a Revolution Under Way
It is with too much ease that we all sometimes use the word 'revolution'. Because all too often the change being championed is one that too many others simply do not notice. But that isn't the case here: the change pushed for at the G8 summit in Italy, and at other such forums, is no less than revolutionary, and can only be seen as historic.
G8: ‘Just Invest in Women’
Investment in the health and the rights of girls and women can help economic recovery, civil society groups are telling G8 leaders.
Q&A: ‘Africa Should Rebuild Domestic Markets to Address Crisis’
Despite the global economic crisis, the world's elites will only "tinker" with the world's markets and financial systems and not bring about the fundamental shifts that are required, says Gyekye Tanoh of the Africa Trade Network.G8: It Will Be a Tale of Two Summits
There is a reason that eight and five do not add up to 13 when it comes to the G8. And it is not just that the five developing countries that now attend the summit of the eight mighty ones as a matter of course are less rich. It's because they have their own way to go, and parallel with the G8 meet, their own summit to attend.DEVELOPMENT: MDG Goals Face ‘Triple Crisis’
The developing world faces a "triple crisis" as global economics, food prices and the impact of climate change affect the world's most vulnerable people, a new UN report warns.
TECHNOLOGY: Rare Metals Could Trigger Next Trade War
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.HEALTH: Climate Change Brings New Diseases
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.
Q&A: "The Global Crisis Is Really About a 140-dollar Barrel of Oil"*
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.LABOUR: ILO Urges Action on Financial Speculation
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.
DEVELOPMENT: Local Currencies Really Can Buy Happiness
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.ECONOMY: 'Africa Should Seize Control over its Development'
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.EUROPE: Victims of Trafficking Need More than Words
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.
Q&A: Global Crisis Is an Opportunity for Economic Renewal
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.
WORLD-ECONOMY: IMF Using Global Crisis to "Re-Launch" Itself
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.
MIGRATION: Human Beings Can’t Be ‘Illegal’, Book Argues
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.MAY DAY: Europeans Begin to See Red
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.US-LATAM: We Can't Be Trapped by History
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.G20: Next Time, Perhaps…
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.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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.
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