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Issue No. 249 (May 2011)
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COVER:
Rich Countries Fail the World's Poorest
Helping
the world's poorest countries
A United Nations summit to assist the least developed countries
ended with new pledges, but the results were really disappointing.
By Martin
Khor
LDC Conference
adopts Istanbul Declaration, no new aid pledged
The Istanbul Declaration reaffirmed solidarity with the poorest
nations, but there were no fresh development aid commitments.
By Sanya
Smith
Trade
liberalisation criticised in LDC Conference panel
Enabling the LDCs to harness the development
potential of trade was the subject of a high-level session at the Istanbul
conference.
By Sanya Smith
South-South
axis strengthens
The Istanbul meeting saw greater cooperation among
the LDCs themselves and between them and the rest of the developing
world.
By Sanjay
Suri
'Our
voices have not been heard...'
The Istanbul Declaration of the Civil
Society Forum held in conjunction with LDC-IV expresses civil society
activists’ deep disappointment.
The
rural roots of poverty and hunger in LDCs
Sustainable agriculture may solve the
problem of poverty in the LDCs caused by a decaying farming sector.
By Johannes Reichert
The
African state must be back in the saddle
Recent calls emanating from Africa urge the state to play a central strategic part in
economic development.
By Cornelius
Adedze
ECOLOGY
It's
time to listen to nature
Why should we only respect the laws
of human beings and not those of nature, asks Bolivia's UN representative?
By Pablo Solón
Controversial
dams approved in Patagonia Chile
Ignoring
strong opposition, the authorities have decided to proceed with a major
dam project in southern Chile despite
the huge environmental, social and economic costs involved.
CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate
change: Neck deep in the Big Muddy
Even as the US continues to
be ravaged by the effects of climate change, it is still in a state
of denial.
By Glenn
Scherer
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ECONOMICS
Egypt
should not take a new IMF loan
Egypt
needs external financing, but it should resist a loan from the IMF,
which does not seem to have abandoned its core fundamental tenets.
By Rick
Rowden
WORLD AFFAIRS
No
exit: Yemen's existential crisis
There is no sign of the crisis in Yemen
abating as its President refuses to step down.
By Sheila Carapico
The
Nakba protests: A taste of the future
Why this year's marches by Palestinians
to commemorate Nakba presage a crucial phase in their epic struggle
for nationhood.
By Jonathan Cook
Narco
violence in Mexico: Eight theses and many questions
Mexico has descended
into a spiral of uncontrollable and unimaginable violence as a result
of its President’s decision to launch a war against drug cartels at
the behest of the US.
By Paco Ignacio Taibo II
WOMEN
Stateless
refugee mothers fall through the cracks in Bangladesh
Undocumented
Burmese Rohingya mothers in Bangladeshi refugee camps survive by taking
refuge in each other.
By Misha Hussain
Women's
issues missing from election manifestos
On the eve of South Africa's
18 May local elections, women's issues are glaringly absent from the
manifestos of the contending parties.
By Zukiswa Zimela
VIEWPOINT
Marriage
of novelty with nostalgia
The British royal wedding of Prince
William and Kate Middleton was a festival of exclusion which denied
the reality that exists behind the image of impeccable decor.
By Jeremy Seabrook
MEDIA
Media
complicit in rise of xenophobia in Europe
European media mostly present
migrants as destabilising Europe's
labour markets and welfare states.
By Zoltán
Dujisin
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