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The Poor Speak Up.(at economic meetings)
They drew blanket press coverage and a watchful audience of New York police, but mainly on the strength of past protest performances. From Seattle to Davos, the riotous anti-globalization road show had pressed its case that rising trade and capital flows are bringing nothing but oppression and instability to the developing world. Their ranks boomed with the global economy, but faded with it as well. The thousands who descended on the World Economic Forum last year in Davos dwindled to a few hundred by the time the fete reconvened last week in New York.
Inside the party at the Waldorf-Astoria, the protesters still inspired a degree of soul-searching among the ...
- United States : UN: Poor nations need $600B for climate change.
- News wire article from: TendersInfo September 3, 2009 700+ words
...their economies grow, a U.N. report concluded Tuesday. Poor nations need to join in the fight against climate change, but they...That means getting massive help now from rich countries so poor nations can use clean energy for their new industries, according...
- United States : UN helps poor nations cope with climate change.
- News wire article from: TendersInfo November 3, 2009 700+ words
Byline: Mamta03 The United Nations (UN) will be establishing two initiatives aimed at helping poor countries finance sustainable forest management as a way to cope with the growing impacts of climate change. Jan McAlpine, director of the Secretariat of the UN Forum on Forests, said the new
- United States : Agri majors to boost farm investment in poor nations.
- News wire article from: TendersInfo November 14, 2009 700+ words
Byline: pinto03 Major world food and agriculture companies pledged on Friday to pour more funds into farming in poor countries to boost food security but they stopped short of proposing precise sums. The world needs to invest $83 billion a year in agriculture in developing countries to stamp out
- _ The United States was heavily criticized Friday at the U.N. climate talks in...
- News wire article from: AP Worldstream October 9, 2009 700+ words
Jonathan Pershing, the head of the American delegation, said the United States wanted a deal in Copenhagen but he admitted it would be extremely difficult for the U.S. to commit to specific numbers in the...
- WHO eyes Nov. flu vaccine shipment to poor nations
- News wire article from: AP Worldstream FRANK JORDANS October 12, 2009 700+ words
...developed countries including the United States have said they will set aside 10 percent of their supply for poor nations. That falls far short of covering...38 percent of parents in the United States said they were unlikely to give...
- CLINTON TO FIGHT CUTS IN AID TO POOR NATIONS.(MAIN)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) October 12, 1995 700+ words
...Associated Press - WASHINGTON President Clinton denounced isolationism in the United States and warned that he would fight ``reckless cuts'' in American support for poor nations. In a speech Wednesday to an international monetary gathering, Clinton...
- Patently wrong; Free drugs are no panacea for poor nations.(OPED)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times January 28, 2003 700+ words
...criticism has fallen upon the United States for being the lone holdout in...WTO) proposal to encourage poor nations to import generic versions of...when the minority of one, the United States, is right, while our usual...
- Why it pays to forgive poor nations' debts.(FEATURES)(PLANET)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor January 13, 2005 700+ words
...alone. Most people in rich nations pay little attention to forgiving poor nations' debts. But last month's Asian tsunamis changed that. This past Friday, the United States, Britain, Japan, and the other well-to-do members of the Group...
