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The Microfinance Crisis
March 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN By Dr. Peter Wolff* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint BONN (IDN) – Microfinance has in recent years evolved into a popular instrument of poverty reduction. At the latest since the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank in 2006, even the broad public has been aware that microcredit may offer even the poorest of people a chance to escape absolute poverty. However, the image of microfinance, often shaped by a certain social romanticism, has developed cracks in recent years. What has happened? First of all, in some countries there... [Read the full story]
Africa
POLITICS-RWANDA: Woman Vies for Top Job
March 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Stanley Kwenda KIGALI, Mar 17 (IPS) – On average women constitute 18.8 percent of representatives in parliaments across the world according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). This gender imbalance has been subject to much feminist criticism and many campaigns for change have been staged to address the status quo. The situation is however different in Rwanda. With 56 percent representation, Rwandese women are sitting on top of the world rankings of women in national parliaments despite the 1994 genocide that left more than 800 000 people... [Read the full story]
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HAITI: Recovery Bill Estimated at 11.5 Billion Dollars
March 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Mar 17 (IPS) – Two weeks before a major donors conference, the Haitian government has estimated that the country will need some 11.5 billion dollars over the next three years to recover from the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake. In its draft ”Preliminary Damage and Needs Assessment” (PDNA), which was prepared with the help of some of its bilateral and multilateral donors, the government projected total damages and losses caused by the quake at close to eight billion dollars. That sum represented the equivalent of roughly... [Read the full story]
Asia
VIETNAM: Salinisation, Drought Bring Worries to Mekong Delta
March 18, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Tran Dinh Thanh Lam MEKONG DELTA, Vietnam, Mar 18, 2010 (IPS) – He has worked this land for half of 64 years and is known among his fellow farmers in Kien Giang province here in the Mekong Delta as ‘lao nong’, or the old master of rice. But even a highly experienced and hardworking rice farmer like Nguyen Tu is finding it a great challenge to grow crops in the Mekong Delta these days. "I spent a whole day and whole night pumping water into the rice field, but the little amount of freshwater I got could hardly wash the five hectares of rice... [Read the full story]
Europe
RIGHTS: EU Selling Torture Equipment
March 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By David Cronin BRUSSELS, Mar 17, 2010 (IPS) – Equipment designed for torturing prisoners is still being exported from European Union (EU) countries despite a four-year-old ban on such trade, according to a new report by Amnesty International. The human rights group has found that companies active in several of the EU’s 27 states have exploited loopholes in controls aimed at putting an end to the selling of instruments of torture. The EU rules – in force since 2006 – need to be widened to cover a number of devices that remain outside... [Read the full story]
Middle East
MIDEAST: Israel-U.S. Tensions Continue to Percolate
March 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Mar 16 (IPS) – Despite assurances by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Tuesday that the United States and Israel share a ”close, unshakeable bond”, the week-old crisis between the two allies continued to percolate here Tuesday. Washington cancelled a planned trip to the region by its special Middle East peace envoy, while its top regional military commander warned that the failure to make progress in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and the ”perception” that the U.S. favoured Israel in that conflict were damaging... [Read the full story]
PAKISTAN : Attacks Bring Humanitarian Work to Virtual Halt
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Ashfaq Yusufzai Mar 18, PESHAWAR, Pakistan, 2010 (IPS) – Bomb attacks and threats to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have brought development work to a virtual halt in the lawless, volatile environment that is the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), located near...
[Continue reading: PAKISTAN : Attacks Bring Humanitarian Work to Virtual Halt]HAITI: Recovery Bill Estimated at 11.5 Billion Dollars
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Mar 17 (IPS) – Two weeks before a major donors conference, the Haitian government has estimated that the country will need some 11.5 billion dollars over the next three years to recover from the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake. In its draft...
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VIETNAM: Salinisation, Drought Bring Worries to Mekong Delta
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Tran Dinh Thanh Lam MEKONG DELTA, Vietnam,...
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Eli Clifton WASHINGTON, Mar 17 (IPS) ...
POLITICS-RWANDA: Woman Vies for Top Job
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Stanley Kwenda KIGALI, Mar 17 (IPS) ...
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Unexpected Low Custom Revenue Causes Budget Shortfalls
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Servaas van den Bosch WINDHOEK, Mar 17 ...
LATIN AMERICA: NGOs Demand Transparency, Reforms in IDB
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Mar 17 (IPS) ...
RIGHTS: EU Selling Torture Equipment
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By David Cronin BRUSSELS, Mar 17, 2010 (IPS)...
DEVELOPMENT: Spain’s New Drive to Extend its Interests in Africa
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Stanley Kwenda PRETORIA, Mar 17 ...
ENVIRONMENT: Blame on Chinese Dams Rise as Mekong River Dries Up
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Mar 17, 2010...
ENERGY-LATIN AMERICA: Moving Towards Renewables
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Marcela Valente* – Tierramérica BUENOS...
EDUCATION-SIERRA LEONE: Government Ignores Demands for Additional Teachers
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Lansana Fofana FREETOWN, Mar 17 (IPS) ...
JAMAICA: The Other Side of Paradise
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Kathy Barrett NEGRIL, Mar 16 (IPS) ...
COLOMBIA: Vote-Buying and Front Men
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Javier Darío Restrepo* BOGOTÁ, Mar 16 ...
MIDEAST: Israel-U.S. Tensions Continue to Percolate
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Mar 16 (IPS) ...
NAMIBIA: ”If You Kiss for Five Minutes You Get It”
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Servaas van den Bosch WINDHOEK, Mar 16 ...
SWAZILAND: Budget Cuts Ahead but More Money for Education and Health
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Mantoe Phakathi MBABANE , Mar 16 (IPS) ...
CLIMATE CHANGE: In Canada, No News is Bad News
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Mar 16 ...
‘Peace Dividend’ Gives Way To Combat Aircraft
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN By Jaya Ramachandran IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis...
SRI LANKA: Managing Overseas Workers A Tough Balancing Act
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Feizal Samath COLOMBO, Mar 16 , 2010 (IPS)...
POLITICS: Afghanistan Spy Contract Goes Sour for Pentagon
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Pratap Chatterjee* WASHINGTON, Mar 16 ...
MIDEAST: Israeli Raids Target Children
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Nora Barrows-Friedman SILWAN, EAST JERUSALEM,...
THAILAND: With Blood Spilt, Political Wounds Far from Healed
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Analysis – By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK,...
CHILE: Cracks Exposed in Readiness Plan
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Daniela Estrada* – Tierramérica SANTIAGO,...
BALKANS: Farming Prospers as Farmers Suffer
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Vesna Peric Zimonjic BELGRADE, Mar 16 ...
RIGHTS-BAHRAIN: Weak Laws Let Rapists Off the Hook
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Suad Hamada MANAMA, Mar 16 , 2010 (IPS) –...
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