Inter Press Service - Global

Artículos

• Urbanization as a Path to Prosperity

  29 de enero, puesto en línea por Chris Wellisz
  Growing up in New York City in the 1970s, Edward Glaeser saw a great metropolis in decline. Crime was soaring. Garbage piled up on sidewalks as striking sanitation workers walked off the job. The city teetered on the edge of bankruptcy. By the mid-1980s, it was clear that New York would bounce (...)

• Addressing the Low Female Representation in STEM Education

  28 de enero, puesto en línea por Joyce Chimbi
  Dr. Anne-Maria Brennan loved science as a young girl. But instead of encouraging her, those around her made attempts to steer her in the “right direction”. “The right direction was in nursing, teaching and secretarial courses. I was told that girls do not study physics,” she tells IPS. “These (...)

• Exchange Rate Undervaluation for Export-Led Growth Promotion

  28 de enero, puesto en línea por Vladimir Popov and Jomo Kwame Sundaram
  One mercantilist view is that exchange rate undervaluation – e.g., via accumulation of foreign exchange reserves in China’s case – is ‘industrial policy’ to promote export-led growth, benefiting producers of exports while discouraging imports. Taxes and subsidies are tools of selective industrial (...)

• Multilateralism Versus Regionalism: Which Path Should African Countries Pursue to Expand Trade and Investment Opportunities?

  28 de enero, puesto en línea por Amina Mohamed
  Increasingly, the ability of multilateralism to address contemporary global issues such as climate change and international trade is being questioned. In the case of international trade, WTO Members have thus far not been able to conclude the Doha Round, which was launched in November 2001. The (...)

• Russia’s Prodigious Gift of Higher Education to the Developing World

  28 de enero, puesto en línea por Somar Wijayadasa
  Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia – popularly known as RUDN (acronym from its Russian name Rossiysky Universitet Druzhby Narodov) – is a renowned, world-class educational and research institution in Moscow. It celebrates its 60th Anniversary from 5-7 February culminating in a grand concert (...)

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