In 2010-2011, a devastating drought led to more than 260,000 deaths beyond normal levels of expected mortality in Somalia. Yet almost no one died in Ethiopia after a severe drought in 2015. Credit: Abdurrahman Warsameh/IPS Opinion Friday, October 28, 2022 Inter Press Service Oct 28 (IPS) – The Horn of…
Dusk approaches in Yangon, Myanmar. Credit: Unsplash/Alexander Schimmeck Opinion by Noeleen Heyzer (united nations) Thursday, October 27, 2022 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Oct 27 (IPS) – The political, human rights and humanitarian crisis in Myanmar continues to take a catastrophic toll on the people, with serious regional implications. More than…
Opinion by Bhumika Muchhala (new york) Wednesday, October 26, 2022 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Oct 26 (IPS) – Held in-person for the first time in three years, the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank last week in Washington, D.C. failed to offer solutions to the dozens…
Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Anis Chowdhury (sydney and kuala lumpur) Tuesday, October 25, 2022 Inter Press Service SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 25 (IPS) – Widespread adverse reactions to the UK government’s recent ‘mini-budget’ forced new Prime Minister Liz Truss to resign. The episode highlighted problems of macroeconomic policy coordination…
Civil society organisations at the Finance in Common Summit. Credit: Noel Emmanuel Zako Opinion by Bibbi Abruzzini (abidjan, ivory coast) Friday, October 21, 2022 Inter Press Service ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, Oct 21 (IPS) – A coalition of civil society organisations is demanding public development banks (PDBs) to take radical and innovative…
Credit: United Nations Opinion by Manzoor Qadir, Guillaume Baggio (hamilton, canada) Thursday, October 20, 2022 Inter Press Service HAMILTON, Canada, Oct 20 (IPS) – Global progress has been staggeringly inadequate against Sustainable Development Goal 6, “clean water and sanitation for all.” According to the latest SDGs progress assessment, 2 billion people…
Opinion by Lars Jensen, George Gray Molina (united nations) Wednesday, October 19, 2022 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Oct 19 (IPS) – Developing low- and middle-income economies are taking hard hits from global economic developments outside their control. Monetary tightening in advanced economies coupled with increasing fears of a global recession…
Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Anis Chowdhury (sydney and kuala lumpur) Tuesday, October 18, 2022 Inter Press Service SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 18 (IPS) – Preoccupied with enhancing their own ‘credibility’ and reputations, central banks (CBs) are again driving the world economy into recession, financial turmoil and debt crises. Wall…
Residents of the Fontanar neighborhood in the Cuban capital are pleased with the incorporation of electric three-wheel vehicles to shorten distances between sectors within Boyeros, one of the municipalities that make up Havana. CREDIT: Jorge Luis Baños/IPS by Luis Brizuela (havana) Monday, October 17, 2022 Inter Press Service HAVANA, Oct 17…
Protesters attend a march against the military coup in Myanmar. Credit: Unsplash/Pyae Sone Htun Opinion by Jan Servaes (brussels) Friday, October 14, 2022 Inter Press Service BRUSSELS, Oct 14 (IPS) – The update on September 26, 2022, of the human rights situation in Myanmar to the UN Human Rights Council says…
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