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The Battle over Development-Led Globalisation
Industrialised countries have mounted an unprecedented campaign to stop the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development from providing policy advice to the poorest countries in Africa and across...
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Intra-African Trade or Global Integration: A Chicken-and-Egg Dilemma?
Though the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has long held that trade between African countries is too low, experts at the South Centre, an inter-governmental think tank of developing countries, say...
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Kenya “Becoming Economic Heartbeat of Africa”
When Kenya’s newly announced geothermal power generation project comes online, it will turn the East African country into an economic powerhouse in the region. About 60 percent of Kenya’s power is...
View ArticleIndia Serves Up Costly Cocktail of Vaccines
Ignoring widespread concern over the safety, efficacy and cost of pentavalent vaccines, India’s central health ministry has, this month, approved inclusion of the prophylactic cocktail in the universal...
View ArticleLaos’ Herculean Effort to Join the WTO
After almost a decade of major economic transformation, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic is on the brink of World Trade Organisation (WTO) membership. But the small country’s Herculean effort to...
View ArticleGreeks Gear Up to Cast ‘Protest Votes’ Against Austerity
Aggeliki Anagnostopoulou (30) sits in a corner of the huge room that volunteers from the new party, Independent Greeks, are using as a headquarters for their pre-election campaign in the lead up to...
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American Beef on the Political Grill
Taiwanese civic activists and opposition parties are persisting in efforts to block imports of high-risk American beef even though the ruling rightist Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) legislative...
View ArticleCorporations Win Big in Battle Against Investment Regulation
In a world where governments are increasingly subservient to global finance capital, multinationals are gaining ground in the fight against state regulations that aim to protect the environment, public...
View ArticleGreek, French Elections Sound Death Knell for Austerity
The voting out of conservative governments in France and Greece this weekend heralds the end of harsh European austerity programmes and ushers in an era of new economic, investment, and social policies...
View ArticleVenezuela’s Mercosur Entry Sparks Dissension
By simultaneously admitting Venezuela into its fold and suspending Paraguay’s membership, Mercosur has sparked dissension within the trading bloc that threatens the future legal architecture of the...
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MIDEAST: Flowers Fight Their Way Out
By Mohammed OmerRAFAH, Gaza, Jan 13 2012 (IPS) Ayman Siam, 41, is not growing carnations as usual this year. It’s limonium and statice flowers instead because they are hardier. Given the risks of an...
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Malawi’s Consumers Have a Right to Fuel and Forex Black Market
By Claire NgozoLILONGWE, Feb 3 2012 (IPS) The black market for foreign exchange and fuel is booming in the midst of an acute scarcity in Malawi. The shortage is so severe that even the Consumer...
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Cameroon’s Economy Suffers as Boko Haram Infiltrates Country
By Ngala Killian ChimtomYAOUNDE, Feb 7 2012 (IPS) Ahmadou Lamine has been forced to close his business selling fuel imported from Nigeria, known locally as “zoa-zoa”, because of the Islamic extremist...
View ArticleVENEZUELA-US: Joined by Black Gold
By Humberto MárquezCARACAS, Feb 22 2012 (IPS) Venezuela and the United States claim they want to reduce their co-dependence on oil, as supplier and importer, respectively. But their mutually beneficial...
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An Assault on Multilateral Trade Negotiations
Ravi Kanth DevarakondaBy Ravi Kanth DevarakondaGENEVA, Mar 17 2012 (IPS) India, Brazil, and South Africa, the international grouping for promoting international cooperation among the three countries...
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Taiwan Beefs Up to Take On the U.S.
Dennis EngbarthBy Dennis EngbarthTAIPEI, Mar 18 2012 (IPS) Taiwan civic activists and opposition parties have launched efforts to block plans by the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang or KMT)...
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India Affirms Role as Developing World’s Pharmacy
India’s generic pharmaceutical industry meets 70 percent of domestic demand and exports 11 billion dollars worth of generic drugs annually. Credit: Kristin Palitza/IPSBy Ranjit DevrajNEW DELHI, Mar 19...
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Brazil and South Africa Hit Hard by Exchange Rate Complications
By Ravi Kanth DevarakondaGENEVA, Mar 30 2012 (IPS) Brazil and South Africa have experienced a widespread contraction of their manufacturing industries, with the latter suffering massive unemployment as...
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BRICS Ministers Say New Trade Narrative Sinks Development
By Ravi Kanth DevarakondaGENEVA, Apr 2 2012 (IPS) Trade ministers of the BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, China, India and South Africa – say that at the G20 trade ministerial summit later this month...
View ArticleEuropean NGOs Put IFIs Under Microscope
By Julio GodoyBERLIN, Apr 4 2012 (IPS) European civil society organisations continue to demand that international financial institutions (IFIs) such as the World Bank and the International Monetary...
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