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Scientists Urge Reform for a Broken Global System
Unless leaders act promptly, climate change and environmental degradation will only worsen and cause greater global problems, scientists warn. Crustmania/CC by 2.0By Stephen LeahyVANCOUVER, Feb 21 2012...
View ArticleMALAYSIA: Privatisation of Healthcare Turns Election Issue
By Baradan KuppusamyKUALA LUMPUR , Feb 26 2012 (IPS)KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 (IPS) – A plan by the Malaysian government to privatise its public healthcare system and get consumers to pay for it through...
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Building a Company in Mozambique – One Peanut at a Time
By Johannes MyburghMAPUTO, Jun 5 2012 (IPS)When you board Mozambique’s national carrier, Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique, you will most likely be given small blue packets of peanuts to munch as the jet...
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Money for Salt: How the Country of the Young Is Failing Its Elderly
By Jinty JacksonSep 20 2012 (IPS)Carolina Poalo strikes the dry earth over and over with her hoe, her frail body bent almost double. She is determined to begin planting. During the long, dry season in...
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Reconsidering Policies and Strategies in the South
By Yilmaz AkyuzGENEVA, Nov 22 2012 (IPS)There are numerous reasons to believe that the forces that have been driving growth in developing and emerging economies since 2009 cannot be sustained over the...
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To Save the U.S. Economy, Lift the Bottom
In this column, Johan Galtung, rector of the TRANSCEND Peace University, writes that the problem of the U.S. economy lies much deeper than the fiscal cliff. Wise people--Robert Borosage, Paul Krugman,...
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GDP: Gauging Dematerialised Progress!
In this column, Hazel Henderson, a futurist and economic iconoclast, celebrates that U.S. GDP will finally include intangible production and services which make up around 70 percent of 21st century...
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OPINION: Obstacles to Development Arising from the International System
In this column, Manuel F. Montes, senior advisor on Finance and Development at the South Centre in Geneva, argues that the limited number of successfully developing countries since the 1950s has...
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Kenya’s Economy Sees Growth at Top But No ‘Trickle-Down’
David Kamau on his farm in Nyeri County, Central Kenya. Although he now grows carrots for sale in addition to maize, he says his efforts are yet to pay off. Credit: Miriam Gathigah/IPSBy Miriam...
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GDP and the Unaccounted for 82 Percent of National Wealth
Mismanagement of India’s vast river system has caused severe water stress in urban and rural landscapes, with many water bodies too polluted for human use. Credit: Malini Shankar/IPSBy Anantha...
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Opinion: “Slight Deceleration” in G20 Trade Restrictions but Continued...
In this column, Roberto Azevêdo, sixth Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), writes that the continuing increase in the G20’s stock of new trade-restrictive measures since the...
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Opinion: A BRICS Bank to Challenge the Bretton Woods System?
Daya Thussu is Professor of International Communication at the University of Westminster in London.By Daya ThussuLONDON, Jul 22 2015 (IPS)The formal opening of the BRICS Bank in Shanghai on Jul. 21...
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Nigeria to Balance GHG Emission Cuts with Development Peculiarities
Flooding in Nigerian villages is just one of the effects of climate change that the country will have to address in drawing up its “intended nationally determined contributions” (INDCs) for the U.N....
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