IPS Inter Press Service - Globalisation - Is It Working for People?

IPS, civil society's leading news agency, is an independent voice from the South and for development, delving into globalisation for the stories underneath.

DEVELOPMENT: About Farmers, Without Farmers - (Found June 24, 2008 )

ROME, Jun 3 (IPS) - Record high food prices and their impact on poor countries will dominate the three-day UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) summit of world leaders that opened Tuesday in Rome. But the solutions to the food crisis cannot be left to governments only, according to several small farmers groups running a parallel civil society food forum.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42636

ENVIRONMENT-PHILIPPINES: Locals Oppose Open Pit Mining For Copper, Gold - (Found June 24, 2008 )

TAMPAKAN, Mindanao, Feb 20 (IPS) - Under the fertile farmland and forests of southern Mindanao sits what may be one of the biggest copper deposits in South-east Asia. But whether the owners of the Tampakan Copper-Gold Project should be permitted to tap the mineral lode is under question.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41262

LABOUR-JAPAN: Foreign Workers&39 Grievances Erupt At Rally - (Found June 24, 2008 )

TOKYO, Mar 10 (IPS) - With its own population both aging and declining, Japan needs migrant workers to sustain its economy. But the governments failure to formulate an accommodative policy was evident at a rally in the capital on Sunday attended by some 300 foreign workers.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41521

ECONOMY: Save the Market from Market Forces - (Found June 24, 2008 )

BRUSSELS, Mar 11 (IPS) - Neo-liberalism is slowly fading away. That is, if we define neo-liberalism as an ideology that steadily wants to reduce and belittle the role of government, and promote ever freer markets.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41547

ECONOMY: Market Heating Up the Globe - (Found June 24, 2008 )

BRUSSELS, Mar 11 (IPS) - One way to look at the climate problem is through the lens of the market. If you do, only one conclusion is possible -- the climate change problem is a massive market failure, a failure of market mechanisms to factor in future costs of a change in climate in real time prices.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41548

ECONOMY: Globalisation &39Localises&39 Inequality - (Found June 24, 2008 )

BRUSSELS, Mar 11 (IPS) - Is the big North-South-divide finally diminishing It seems to be, though slowly.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41549

PHILIPPINES: Left Extremists Continue to &39Punish&39 Big Business - (Found June 24, 2008 )

TAMPAKAN, Mindanao, Mar 13 (IPS) - In the New Year&39s tradition of frightening off evil spirits with fireworks and noise, the communist New People&39s Army (NPA) ushered in 2008 by attacking the base camp of Sagittarius Mines Inc. (SMI) in the village of Tablu, in South Cotabato province.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41577

ECONOMY: Workers Will Pay the Costs of Global Crisis - (Found June 24, 2008 )

GENEVA, Mar 18 (IPS) - International union leaders warned representatives of governments and employers, and World Bank President Robert Zoellick, that the burden of the current financial turmoil will fall on the worlds workers.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41637

GLOBALISATION: So, Back to Regulation, Then - (Found June 24, 2008 )

BERLIN, Mar 20 (IPS) - The financial crisis around the world marks the end of neo-liberal globalisation and the beginning of a new era of regulation of the global economy, political leaders and economists say.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41669

GLOBALISATION: New Curbs on Investment From the South - (Found June 24, 2008 )

BERLIN, Apr 14 (IPS) - Germany&39s decision to introduce controls on investments from the South in strategic domestic sectors is yet another indicator of growing protectionism in European and other industrialised countries against the neo-liberal globalisation they once masterminded.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41970