DRC: The Cost of War
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Stephanie Kale
KIGALI, Nov 8 (IPS) – War is expensive. The costs include not only the millions of dollars spent on military equipment and maintaining an army, but the financial and psychological toll it takes on the everyday lives of people caught in the crossfire.
When fighting takes place where [...]
CHINESE ECONOMY MONITOR—NOTE No.3
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008
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B.RAMAN
( What will be the impact of the global financial and economic melt-down on the Chinese economy? This question should be of interest to the other countries of the South and the South-East Asian region. If [...]
ECONOMY-BRAZIL: Crisis Delays Threat of ‘Venezuelan Disease’
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008
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By Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 4 (IPS) – The global financial crisis has corrected the extreme overvaluation of Brazil’s local currency, caused by the policies of its Central Bank, thus temporarily chasing away fears of “Dutch disease”, which [...]
VIETNAM: Prosperity Tough on Trash Collectors
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Monday, November 03, 2008
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Helen Clark
HANOI, Nov 3 (IPS) – As the expendable income of households in Hanoi increases, so does the amount of refuse generated. This is taking a toll on the city’s predominantly female force of garbage collectors, as [...]
PERU: Free Trade Opens Environmental Window
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Saturday, November 01, 2008
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Milagros Salazar* – Tierramérica
LIMA, Nov 1 (IPS) – Legislative decree 1090, which modifies Peru’s forest policy, is worrying U.S. trade authorities because it contravenes environmental clauses of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that is to enter [...]
ECONOMY-MAURITIUS: Textile Manufacturing Goes Green and Clean
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Saturday, November 01, 2008
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Nasseem Ackbarally
PORT LOUIS, Nov 1 (IPS) – ‘‘The cost of production is high in Mauritius as we are far away from our main markets. Our island is so small that at times our clients do forget us. [...]
HAITI: Activists Urge World Bank to Erase Crippling Debt
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Friday, October 31, 2008
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Nergui Manalsuren
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 31 (IPS) – On a recent visit to the hurricane-ravaged island of Haiti, World Bank President Robert Zoellick declared that 500 million dollars of Haiti’s 1.7-billion-dollar foreign debt had been cancelled, and the [...]
FINANCE: Revolt Against ”Elite Clubs” Grows at U.N.
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
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Wolfgang Kerler
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 30 (IPS) – U.N. member states and economists challenged the neo-liberal policies of market deregulation that have long been promoted by powerful global financial institutions like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund [...]
SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Financial Meltdown Prompts Return to Agriculture
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
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Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK, Oct 30 (IPS) – As South-east Asia feels the heal of the global financial meltdown leaders are turning to the informal sector, particularly agriculture, as a potential provider of employment.
Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi echoed [...]
FINANCE: NGOs Call for Radical Reforms as IMF Offers New Loans
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
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Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (IPS) – Two weeks before U.S. President George W. Bush hosts an economic summit to address the six-week-old financial crisis that has wreaked havoc on the world’s capital and stock markets, a coalition [...]
