Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Monday, October 27, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by John Vandaele* AMSTERDAM, Oct 27 (IPS) – Power and democracy don’t go together well in global governance. The most powerful global institutions are the least democratic, but things are changing. Slowly. Can a global [...]
DEVELOPMENT: Poor Hit by Recession and Tax Havens
October 27, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Monday, October 27, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. David Cronin BRUSSELS, Oct 27 (IPS) – With signs of a recession preoccupying policy-makers in industrialised countries, prospects for the success of an international conference on providing finance to the world’s poor do not appear high. [...]
AFRICA: Financial Crisis May Increase Pressure for Debt Repayment
October 25, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites – Global Analyst Online / IPS Saturday, October 25, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Stanley Kwenda* MANZINI (Swaziland), Oct 25 (IPS) – The collapse of the financial markets may force the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to [...]
ARGENTINA: Caution and Enthusiasm for Fish Farming
October 25, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Saturday, October 25, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Marcela Valente* – Tierramérica BUENOS AIRES, Oct 25 (IPS) – Fish farming is expanding in Latin America, fuelled by the demands of a global market that is facing the stagnation of commercial fishing. But some people [...]
ECONOMY: Civil Society Has Something to Say
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Monday, October 27, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Gustavo Capdevila GENEVA, Oct 27 (IPS) – Governments cannot deal with the current financial crisis on their own, and need the support of the people they govern, which is ”best translated by the opinions of the [...]