Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram (kuala lumpur, malaysia) Wednesday, November 22, 2023 Inter Press Service KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Nov 22 (IPS) – In recent decades, failure to sustain economic progress has been blamed on a supposed middle-income country (MIC) trap. Such blaming obscures as much as it supposedly explains. The ‘middle-income…
Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Ong Kar Jin (kuala lumpur, malaysia) Wednesday, November 15, 2023 Inter Press Service KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Nov 15 (IPS) – US President Joe Biden’s Indo-Pacific Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) is the economic arm of his administration’s Indo-Pacific Strategy, aimed at countering China’s influence in the region….
The Indonesian Migrant Workers Union (SBMI), with Greenpeace, Indonesia, conducted a peaceful action in front of the Presidential Palace in Jakarta to encourage the President to immediately ratify the Government Regulation draft on the Protection of Indonesian migrant fishers. Credit: Adhi Wicaksono / Greenpeace by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Wednesday, November 15,…
Opinion by Rosi Orozco (acapulco, mexico) Thursday, November 02, 2023 Inter Press Service ACAPULCO, Mexico, Nov 02 (IPS) – Acapulco is a paradise. A port of golden sunsets, toasted sand, and deep blue sea. Its dream beaches captivated the hearts of Elvis Presley and Elizabeth Taylor. US President John F. Kennedy…
Credit: Fiona Goodall/Getty Images Opinion by Andrew Firmin (london) Friday, October 20, 2023 Inter Press Service LONDON, Oct 20 (IPS) – It’s a rapid reversal for New Zealand’s Labour Party, in power for six years. At the last election in 2020 it won an outright majority, the first party to do…
Credit: Education Cannot Wait Opinion by Heike Kuhn (bonn, germany) Wednesday, October 04, 2023 Inter Press Service BONN, Germany, Oct 04 (IPS) – Once a year, on October 5, we celebrate World Teachers’ Day. Why is it so important to have a closer look on the teaching profession? What is so…
Miriam Poma stands in the electromechanical workshop for high-end vehicles that she co-owns in the city of El Alto, adjacent to La Paz, Bolivia. In the past, she had several jobs in the informal sector and also had to overcome a lot of resistance to working as an automotive mechanic….
Mushroom workers rally, Sunnyside, Washington, April 18, 2023. Credit: Peter Costantini by Peter Costantini (seattle, usa) Thursday, August 31, 2023 Inter Press Service SEATTLE, USA, Aug 31 (IPS) – The Yakima River runs southeast from the Cascade Mountains through central Washington state to merge with the Columbia a little north of…
Credit: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters via Gallo Images Opinion by Andrew Firmin (london) Friday, August 18, 2023 Inter Press Service LONDON, Aug 18 (IPS) – Civic space is deteriorating in Senegal ahead of next February’s presidential election. Recent protests have been met with lethal violence and internet and social media restrictions. Senegal’s democracy…
Her hands loaded with crates, Susan Quintanilla, a union leader of agro-export workers in the department of Ica in southwestern Peru, gets ready to collect different vegetables and fruits for foreign markets. She has witnessed many injustices, saying the companies “made you feel like they were doing you a favor…
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