Tag Archives: Developing

Opinion by Richard Kozul Wright (geneva) Thursday, June 15, 2023 Inter Press Service GENEVA, Jun 15 (IPS) – After years of failing to meet climate finance commitments, the new climate finance goal under discussion this week in Bonn is critical, but without supporting reforms of the global financial architecture we risk …

Th artist recently shared his thoughts, along with Mo Abudu and more at the 2023 Milken Global Conference. Mr Eazi believes Afrobeats is the key to developing Africa’s creative economy.

February 24th will mark one year since Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine in what was the start of Moscow’s full-blown invasion of its neighbour. Though Ukraine has, remarkably, survived as a sovereign state, it continues to suffer from round-the-clock artillery bombardment. But in addition to the thousands of civilian deaths, …

A wind energy generation plant located in Loiyangalani in northwestern Kenya. Credit: Isaiah Esipisu/IPS Opinion  washington dc Tuesday, January 31, 2023 Inter Press Service WASHINGTON DC, Jan 31 (IPS) – Meeting our climate change goals will require massive investments in clean energy projects, in both advanced economies and across the …

Covax has had to renegotiate its contracts with four suppliers of vaccines, to reduce them by between 400 and 600 million doses. Four hundred million doses from Pfizer that were coming as a donation from the United States government have been converted into future options available in 2023. “We did …

Chris Hemsworth has revealed he will be taking a break from acting to spend time with his family days after revealing that he has high risk of developing Alzheimer’s.   The Thor star, 39, told Vanity Fair, he has decided to take ‘time off’ after filming a confronting episode about death on his new Disney+ …

Georgetown University Jewish Civilization professor Jacques Berlinerblau writes an interesting essay for MSNBC that could easily have ramifications in the near and distant future. Rather than the old anti-Semitism where Jews were marginalized wherever they happened to be, Trump and his movement, as it often does, split Jews into a …

Opinion by Isabel Ortiz, Matti Kohonen (london / new york) Monday, October 24, 2022 Inter Press Service LONDON / NEW YORK, Oct 24 (IPS) – Finance ministers of the G20 and the world met in Washington, October 10-16, to discuss how to navigate multiple crises, including rising cost-of-living, broken global supply …

Opinion by Simone Galimberti (kathmandu, nepal) Tuesday, September 13, 2022 Inter Press Service KATHMANDU, Nepal, Sep 13 (IPS) – If we truly want to re-imagine the role education can play in the decades to come, it is going to be indispensable to take drastic measures to elevate the role of teachers …

Opinion by Daud Khan (rome) Wednesday, June 01, 2022 Inter Press Service ROME, Jun 01 (IPS) – Developing countries – in Africa, in Asia, in Latin America and in the Middle East – are facing a combination of crises that are unprecedented in recent times. Over the last three years they …