Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Saturday, November 01, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Milagros Salazar* – Tierramérica LIMA, Nov 1 (IPS) – Legislative decree 1090, which modifies Peru’s forest policy, is worrying U.S. trade authorities because it contravenes environmental clauses of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that is to [...]
SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Financial Meltdown Prompts Return to Agriculture
October 30, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thursday, October 30, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Oct 30 (IPS) – As South-east Asia feels the heal of the global financial meltdown leaders are turning to the informal sector, particularly agriculture, as a potential provider of employment. Malaysian Prime Minister [...]
FINANCE: NGOs Call for Radical Reforms as IMF Offers New Loans
October 29, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Wednesday, October 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (IPS) – Two weeks before U.S. President George W. Bush hosts an economic summit to address the six-week-old financial crisis that has wreaked havoc on the world’s capital and stock markets, [...]
MEXICO: Oil Reforms Leave State in the Red
October 29, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Wednesday, October 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Diego Cevallos MEXICO CITY, Oct 29 (IPS) – The oil industry reforms approved by the Mexican Congress and applauded by the government and most of the country’s parties, with the exception of factions on the left [...]
FINANCE: Corporate Vows Tested in the West Bank
Global Politics Online / IPS Ida Karlsson UNITED NATIONS, Nov 12 (IPS) – A company that is a member of the U.N. Global Compact for corporate social responsibility has ties to production in an Israeli settlement on the West Bank considered illegal by the United Nations. A spokeperson for the company, Vileda, an international household [...]