Globalisation

DEVELOPMENT-MALAWI: Do the MDGs Matter?

By IPS Correspondents
In a country such as Malawi, where the ramifications of HIV/AIDS, perennial hunger and illiteracy are all too clear, one would expect that the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) would be familiar to many people.

WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Activists Determined to Take On Globalisation’s Challenges

By IPS Correspondents
The mammoth World Social Forum (WSF) wound to a close in the Kenyan capital after five days of dialogue, art, poetry, dance, drama and protests led by participants from around the globe who believe "another world is possible" - the slogan of the global civil society movement.

ECONOMY-MAURITIUS: Globalisation “Gobbles Up the Plankton”

By IPS Correspondents
‘‘How much do you open, at what pace, and what measures do you take as a government to help local enterprises to restructure?’’

DEVELOPMENT: Latin America Has Tips for ASEAN Charter

By IPS Correspondents
Over the last two months, South America and South-East Asia have taken huge steps forward towards creating two distinct regional blocs. But the contrasting principles in their respective blueprints for integration reflect the different political and economic philosophies driving the integration plans.

DEVELOPMENT-TANZANIA: Sachs Says It Is Possible to Meet MDGs

By Stephanie Nieuwoudt
World renowned economist and director of the United Nations (UN) Millennium Project, Jeffrey Sachs, is a harbinger of good news. During his visit to Nairobi, capital of Kenya, in mid-January he emphasised that it was still possible to meet the MDGs before 2015.

LABOUR: US Unions Oppose Free Trade With Malaysia

By IPS Correspondents
Trade unions from the United States have joined forces with their Malaysian counterparts to strongly oppose ongoing negotiations for bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) until workers’ concerns are first addressed.

WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: A Tale of Budget Crunches and Midnight Oil

By IPS Correspondents
With just days to go before the seventh World Social Forum (WSF) kicks off in Nairobi it’s all systems go amongst the organisers, who are preparing to welcome thousands of delegates to the Kenyan capital for the Jan. 20-25 gathering.

WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: From the Burkinabe Countryside to Italian Tomato Fields

By IPS Correspondents
For Mady Daboné, Europe beckons. "Staying here...is misery," the 30-year-old from the village of Begdo in eastern Burkina Faso told IPS, adding that several of his friends were already abroad. "I have about twenty of them in Italy and Spain. They have all done well, even though they suffered at the beginning."

SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Job Prospects for Youth Stay Dim in 2007

By Marwaan Macan-Markar
While South-east Asian countries appear to have made impressive economic strides since the 1997 crisis, the region's youth may not be able to look forward to a harvest of opportunities in 2007, the 10th anniversary of the Asian financial meltdown that began in Thailand.

DEVELOPMENT-BURKINA FASO: Price Snags for Cotton Farmers

By IPS Correspondents
Some call it "white gold"; but, the ever-falling price of cotton means that this nickname may end up being more ironic than complimentary. In Burkina Faso cotton producers are, for the first time, facing the prospect of a third consecutive drop in the price of the commodity.

WORLD SOCIAL FORUM-CAMEROON: NGOs Long on Vision, Short on Detail?

By IPS Correspondents
As the countdown to the 2007 World Social Forum gains momentum, anti-globalisation activists from around the world are no doubt rolling up their sleeves for spirited debates on the flaws in the current economic order. In Cameroon, however, such debates are already underway.

CHALLENGES 2006-2007: India Investing More Abroad Than Receiving

By IPS Correspondents
Despite persistent poverty and income disparities the fading year marks the point when, 60 years after independence from colonial rule, Indians are investing more abroad than the country is receiving as foreign direct investment (FDI).

KENYA: Oldest National Park Confronts Industry and Urban Sprawl

By IPS Correspondents
For people who arrive at the international airport in Nairobi, Kenya's fabled wildlife can be glimpsed almost immediately, in the Nairobi National Park which borders the airport. Driving out of this facility en route to the city, there's a chance of sighting black rhino, zebras and giraffe: just some of the many species that inhabit the park.

WORLD SOCIAL FORUM-KENYA: A Race to Leave Informal Settlements Behind

By IPS Correspondents
Come the 2007 World Social Forum (WSF), to be held in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi next month, many delegates will doubtless be seen running to and from various events. Some may also be running for an event, however: the 'Marathon for Basic Rights: Another World is Possible Even for Slum Dwellers'.

TRADE: Progress Towards South-South Tariff Cuts

By Gustavo Capdevila
A preliminary understanding reached by a bloc of 43 developing nations has opened the prospect of making significant cuts in trade tariffs among countries of the South.

DEVELOPMENT: ACP Nations Opt for Trade on Their Terms

By IPS Correspondents
Leaders of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States wrapped up their fifth summit Friday in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum - this after two days of debate over trade relations between the ACP, a 79-member grouping that includes some of the world's poorest nations - and the European Union (EU).

FINANCE: Is the IMF Irredeemably Irrelevant?

By IPS Correspondents
Has the International Monetary Fund (IMF) become completely irrelevant? Is this world body, set up more than six decades ago to foster global economic stability and help countries facing financial crises, really reforming itself? And will it become more responsive to the aspirations of developing countries?

DEVELOPMENT: Trade Agreements, Darfur in the Spotlight at ACP Gathering

By IPS Correspondents
The fifth summit of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States is taking place under the theme 'United for Peace, Solidarity and Sustainability'; however, negotiations at the meeting may have a somewhat less harmonious tone.

POLITICS: India’s Left Going the Lula Way?

By IPS Correspondents
India's mainstream Left parties, led by the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM), are getting into an ugly confrontation with civil society groups and classes that are part of their own core constituency in the state of West Bengal, which they have ruled for three long decades.

DEVELOPMENT: ACP States Feeling the Pinch of 2007 Trade Deadline

By IPS Correspondents
The fifth summit of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States will kick off on Thursday in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, amidst fierce speculation over the fate of trade agreements between the European Union (EU) and ACP nations.

DEVELOPMENT-CAMEROON: NGOs to the Defence of Local Farmers

By IPS Correspondents
Cameroonian civil society groups are expressing concern at the effects of trade liberalisation on the Central African country's food security.
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