Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Susan Anyangu-Amu NAIROBI, Sep 8 (IPS) – "Herding goats is tough with the thirst, sun, loneliness and hunger each day. And it can last forever. You herd as a girl, then as a wife, as a pregnant woman, as a mother and even as a grandmother," says Rukia [...]
HAITI: Scraping by on Mud Cookies
August 27, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Wadner Pierre Credit:Wadner Pierre/IPS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Aug 27, 2010 (IPS) – At six in the morning in Cite Soleil, the poorest zone of Haiti’s capital city, the sun is already up. It’s the start of another workday for Lurene Jeanti, making cookies from mud, butter and salt. She’s [...]
Facing the Challenge of Unemployment
August 19, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Brenda Sorensen IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis OSLO (IDN) – Thirty-four million more people worldwide have been thrown out of job since the eve of the global financial crisis in 2007 and the ensuing recession, which have had devastating consequences for employment and poverty reduction. Global unemployment in 2010 is [...]
Privatization Leaves Billions in the Lurch
August 16, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Nirode Masson IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis LONDON (IDN) – Billions of poor people who lack adequate access to healthcare and old-age security are posing a key challenge in developing countries that undertook drastic reforms and privatized social security systems at the behest of the World Bank. A new report [...]
DEVELOPMENT-NIGER: Selling Sand to Survive
August 16, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Souleymane Maâzou NIAMEY, Aug 15 (IPS) – It’s a trade that requires no capital, only courage and endurance. A group of 200 women are making ends meet – sometimes even a bit more – by selling sand. They are known in Niamey, the Nigerien capital, as ”takalakoyes”; the [...]
Haitians in DR Reap Far Less than They Sow
August 10, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jon Anderson BONAO, Monseñor Province, Dominican Republic, Aug 10, 2010 (IPS) – Luis Miguel, a soft-spoken and serious 21-year-old from Haiti’s Artibonnite Valley, stands on a ridge overlooking the small farm in the Dominican Cibao where he works as the owner’s overseer. He adopted his Dominican moniker [...]
How to Promote Development for the Vulnerable
August 9, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis TORONTO (IDN) – When heads of government and state meet at the United Nations in New York from September 20-22 to review progress, assess obstacles and gaps, and agree on concrete strategies and actions to meet the eight Millennium Development Goals by 2015, they will not [...]
GREECE: Society Begins to Crack Under Harsh Measures
July 30, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Apostolis Fotiadis ATHENS, Jul 30, 2010 (IPS) – Every working day, more than a hundred people crowd around the entrance of the merchant and passenger boats’ reconstruction industry, well known as ‘The Zone’, in the southern suburb of Attiki. Most of them are unemployed steel workers and [...]
PAKISTAN: Depression, Poverty Make A Deadly Mix
July 21, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Zofeen Ebrahim LAHORE, Pakistan, Jul 21, 2010 (IPS) – She survived the nightmare, but three of her six children, as well as her husband, did not. In fact, Muzammil Akbar says, it was her husband Akbar Ali who had fed poison to their three eldest children before [...]
OECD Praises and Criticises South Africa
July 20, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Satish Bhaskaran IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis PRETORIA (IDN) – A new report has commended South Africa for its growth performance which has improved over the past two decades, but pointed out that this was not sufficient either to offer enough employment opportunities for the young and growing population or [...]
