News headlines in 2015, page 16

NEW YORK, Oct 20 (IPS) - The demographic revolutions the world is experiencing are profound and far-reaching, affecting virtually every aspect of human society. Whether in politics, business, international relations, environmental affairs or even personal matters, understanding the fundamental demographic changes underway and anticipating their juggernaut consequences can contribute considerably to the setting of meaningful goals, designing effective strategies and achieving genuine progress.

MEXICO CITY, Oct 19 (IPS) - Nearly a month since Pope Francis ended his historic visit to Cuba, any hope that authorities would loosen control on free expression in the country is fading as fast as the chants that welcomed him.

NEW DELHI, Oct 19 (IPS) - After Adam Smith and Amartya Sen, Angus Deaton, this year's Nobel laureate in economics, has contributed most to broaden and enrich our understanding of human well-being. His brilliant and path-breaking contributions to the theory and measurement of consumption, poverty, inequality, nutrition – and, more recently, aging, morbidity and suicides – have inspired a generation of economists to carry out reformulations, refinements and extensions.

SUCRE, Bolivia, Oct 17 (IPS) - The hands of women who have migrated from rural areas carefully tend to their ecological vegetable gardens in the yards of their humble homes on the outskirts of Sucre, the official capital of Bolivia, in an effort to improve their families' diets and incomes.

WASHINGTON DC, Oct 15 (IPS) - It's auniversally acknowledged truth that no nation can sustain open borders. Even the wealthiest, most popular "nations of immigrants" like the US cannot possibly accept everyone who wants to immigrate here or even qualifies to do so.

PLAN GRANDE, Honduras, Oct 14 (IPS) - Four years ago, Cinthia Padilla, who is now 16, learned how to use a computer in order to teach children, adolescents and adults in this isolated fishing village in northern Honduras how to use technology to better their lives.

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 14 (IPS) - When the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) adopted a landmark resolution on women, peace and security 15 years ago, that resolution was best known by its numerals: 1325.

BUENOS AIRES, Oct 13 (IPS) - Above and beyond the uncertainty about the direction that Argentina's economy will take after the Oct. 25 presidential elections, the government's main social programmes, which have helped bring down poverty levels in the last decade, are definitely here to stay, no matter who is elected.

Oct 12 (IPS) - With the worldwide numbers of displaced people at all-time highs, migration has become the watchword for humanitarian crises.