By Miriam Gathigah BUSAN, South Korea, Nov 30, 2011 (IPS) – Women toil in the fields for most of their lives producing food and strengthening the largely agricultural economy of African countries, but when their fathers, husbands or older sons… Continue Reading
By Hall Gardner* A dangerous transition is occurring in what American neo-conservatives have dubbed the ? greater Middle East ? but which is more accurately taking place in the area of the former Ottoman and Persian empires prior to Ottoman… Continue Reading
By Suvendrini Kakuchi BUSAN, South Korea, Nov 29 , 2011 (IPS) – Key actors meeting in Busan on Tuesday, the first day of the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF4), lay emphasis on inclusive ownership, mutual accountability and… Continue Reading
The long shadow of the 1930s By Gideon Rachman Could things go bad again? I mean really bad ? Great Depression bad, world war bad? The kind of cataclysmic event my generation has learned to think belongs only in the… Continue Reading
By Pilar Bonet* 1991 -2011: Responding to Global Political Revolution In 1999 when NATO was bombing Yugoslavia I got a call from a young person working in an analytical department of the Alliance. She wanted to know whether by any… Continue Reading
Analysis by Miriam Gathigah BUSAN, South Korea, Nov 28, 2011 (IPS) – When the G-8 countries, comprising the world?s largest industrialised nations, decided that improving Internet access to developing countries should be a priority, scores of leaders from developing world… Continue Reading
By Paul Street* – ZSpace Page Consistent with their roles as propaganda assets of the rich, many local newspapers last week ran on their front pages an Associated Press (AP) story that accused the Occupy Movement of costing American taxpayers… Continue Reading
IPS LISBON, Nov 2011 (IPS) – Roma leaders are alarmed at the growing discrimination faced by their people in Europe, especially because of the anti-gypsy stance taken by many political parties, which blame the ethnic minority group for a wide… Continue Reading
By STEPHEN FIDLER ? The Wall Street Journal The biggest question in Europe isn’t what it was a few weeks ago. It is no longer just whether any of the 17 governments in the euro zone will default on its… Continue Reading
By Hugh Carnegy in Strasbourg, Quentin Peel in Berlin and Tom Burgis in London The leaders of Germany and France on Thursday pledged to press ahead with greater fiscal union among the members of the eurozone as they seek to… Continue Reading
By Miriam Gathigah NAIROBI, Nov 24, 2011 (IPS) – Kenyan tea and coffee farmers remain disgruntled about the minimal profits they make selling their cash crops, the country?s leading foreign currency earners, as the government receives millions in funding for… Continue Reading
Martin Wolf – Financial Times Investors are increasingly loath to trust the debt of many euro zone sovereigns. That is the most important lesson of recent events. Many European politicians wish to declare war on the markets. They need to… Continue Reading
Human Wrongs Watch Egypt?s military rulers have completely failed to live up to their promises to Egyptians to improve human rights and have instead been responsible for a catalogue of abuses which in some cases exceeds the record of Hosni… Continue Reading
In response to the walkout staged by students in the intro economics class at Harvard, INET launched the syllabus project 30 Ways to Teach Economics. We invited professors and students to send us syllabi, and to share their experience with… Continue Reading
By PAUL KRUGMAN ? The New York Times There?s a word I keep hearing lately: ?technocrat.? Sometimes it?s used as a term of scorn ? the creators of the euro, we?re told, were technocrats who failed to take human and… Continue Reading
A.D.McKenzie PARIS, Nov 2011 (IPS) – A new model of making development assistance more successful is expected to emerge at the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-4), to be held Nov. 29 – Dec. 1 in Busan, Korea.… Continue Reading
By Leonardo Padura (*) HAVANA, Nov (IPS) Law 288 recently passed by the Cuban government finally made it legal to buy and sell private real estate on the island. Even the most hard-core of the Obama administration spokespeople have approved… Continue Reading
By Naked Capitalism* The Financial Times gives prominent play to a story that I suspect will go largely unnoticed in the US, that of the way that the Switzerland?s bank regulator, the Swiss National Bank, has forced its two biggest… Continue Reading
By Shastri Ramachandaran* IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis NEW DELHI (IDN) – During my time in Beijing*, the days on which India appeared in China?s English dailies or TV were few and far between. Even bilateral exchanges, ministerial visits and official cultural events… Continue Reading
Marc Roche – Le Monde Paris – Mario Monti, Lucas Papademos and Mario Draghi have something in common: they have all worked for the American investment bank. This is not a coincidence, but evidence of a strategy to exert influence… Continue Reading
