Global IssuesNews headlines for “Foreign Aid for Development Assistance”, page 21
MIDEAST: US Funds Apartheid Roads on West Bank
- Inter Press Service
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is helping Israel to construct an apartheid road infrastructure in the occupied Palestinian West Bank by financing nearly a quarter of the segregated road system primarily for the benefit of Israeli settlers.
TRADE-NEPAL: Himalayan Nation’s Garment Industry in Tatters
- Inter Press Service
These days, First Vice-President of Garment Association (GAN) of Nepal Udaya Raj Pandey is mostly seen at the National Campus rather than the GAN office that he once frequented almost every day. The reason: He has shut down his garment company — Sirin Garments Industries Pvt Ltd — and invested in the educational institution.
ECONOMY-BALKANS: 'How Did We Become So Poor?'
- Inter Press Service
Almost two decades after Yugoslavia fell apart, the majority of the defunct socialist country’s people are insecure and uncertain for their future with the booming economy and rapid development that capitalism promised remaining a pipe dream.
BULGARIA: Blue Danube Meanders Into Road Building
- Inter Press Service
The European Union Danube Strategy (DS), unfolding this year, is proving to be a litmus test for the viability of the concept of ‘green growth’ in Eastern Europe.
GREECE: Turks Bearing Gifts
- Inter Press Service
The first visit in six years of a Turkish prime minister to Greece has been widely hailed as a historical rapprochement after a long period of mutual bitterness.
Haiti Asks Expat Professionals to Return and Help
- Inter Press Service
Members of the Haitian diaspora responded with 'massive and spontaneous' aid immediately after the Jan. 12 earthquake, with thousand of professionals leaving jobs abroad to go and assist their compatriots, according to a government minister.
BIODIVERSITY: Prized Bluefin Tuna Adrift in a Sea of Conflicting Interests
- Inter Press Service
Mounting international criticism against Japan’s Atlantic bluefin tuna imports linked closely to the extinction of the species has turned the spotlight, once again, on the lack of a viable means of protecting most of the world’s fast- depleting natural resources.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Cash Transfers Transforming Lives of the Poor
- Inter Press Service
When Letesia Mbewe was nominated as a beneficiary in a cash transfer pilot project in Zambia’s Chipata district, she had no idea the project would change her life and that of her three children.
POLITICS: Sri Lanka’s Turnaround Could Signal New Beginning
- Inter Press Service
For a country that has had quite a few run-ins with global giants in the diplomatic arena, the last fortnight has witnessed somewhat of a turnaround for Sri Lanka.
ENVIRONMENT: Australia Backflips on Climate Action
- Inter Press Service
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s Labor Party has made much of its plans to tackle climate change even before it came to power with victory in the country’s 2007 election.
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