Global IssuesNews headlines for “Foreign Aid for Development Assistance”, page 9
Nambia Wants to Conclude Talks and Sign EPAs
- Inter Press Service
European Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht made a pit-stop in Windhoek to appease concerns over a troublesome economic partnership agreement (EPA) ahead of the Africa-European Union summit in South Africa.
China Increasingly Central to Caribbean Development
- Inter Press Service
By the time Wang Qishan, China's vice premier, arrived in Trinidad for the Third China-Caribbean Economic and Trade Cooperation Forum earlier this week, Beijing had already ramped up its involvement with most countries in the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping.
US-LATAM: Human Trafficking Scourge Needs More Than Policing
- Inter Press Service
South American experts and officials met in Washington this week to discuss current policy initiatives to combat human trafficking in their respective countries, part of a broader U.S.-wide tour to share information and strategies to deal with the issue.
DEVELOPMENT: 'Boomerang Aid Enriches Donors'
- Inter Press Service
Development aid is ineffective mostly because it is tied to contracts worth billions of dollars awarded to firms in developed countries in a phenomenon called boomerang aid, a new study says.
SOMALIA: Food Aid Stolen From Famine Victims
- Inter Press Service
Masses of food meant for famine victims in Somalia are being stolen, an investigation has revealed.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Brazilian Women Rise Above the Waters
- Inter Press Service
Almost a year and a half after floods wreaked havoc in a large part of the state of Rio de Janeiro, a group of women are struggling to rebuild their lives. They lost everything except their will to pick themselves up again and make the best of the aid they receive, to become self-sufficient again.
China, India Score With Untied Aid
- Inter Press Service
Armed with a smile, Don Marut exposes the pitfalls of Western aid to developing countries. At a conference here, the Indonesian recalled the story of how 40 electric-train carriages were sent from Germany to his country for a journey to nowhere.
Brazil Revs Up South-South Cooperation
- Inter Press Service
As one of the world's emerging economic powerhouses, Brazil is vigourously pursuing one of the key economic objectives on the U.N.'s development agenda: South-South Cooperation.
CUBA: Dreams and Progress in a Rural Community
- Inter Press Service
The day that electricity arrived in the Cuban village of Jova, there were shouts, laughter and tears of joy, even among the most incredulous, who had doubted it was possible. 'I didn’t know what to do; it actually made me nervous,' Carmen Carvallosa confessed.
SOMALIA: Capital City Still in Need of Thousands of Tonnes of Aid
- Inter Press Service
The shelling and gunshots, once a common sound in Mogadishu, no longer ring out in the city’s streets. The surprise withdrawal on Aug. 6 of the Islamist extremist group Al Shabaab from their stronghold in Mogadishu has meant that people now move about the city, for the first time in two years, without fear of constant attack.
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