Kenya’s Mung Bean Legislation Debate ... - Inter Press Service
1 天前 · KITUI, Kenya , Oct 17 2024 (IPS) - Kenyan farmers have faced a turbulent year, caught between legislative changes and a devastating scandal. While the country’s Mung Bean Bill, aiming to regulate the lucrative mung bean industry, has moved to mediation, farmers are battling the fallout from the widespread distribution of counterfeit …
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2024年10月4日 · The commonly used Bangla phrase for siphoning off money out of the country – “taka pachar” – is rather misleading. Because taka, the Bangladeshi currency, is never taken out of Bangladesh.
Bangladesh faces a challenge to ensure welfare of its aging …
2019年2月22日 · This report is produced by UNB United News of Bangladesh and IPS Inter Press Service.. DHAKA, Bangladesh, Feb 22 2019 - (IPS/UNB) – Bangladesh economy’s impressive growth trajectory over the last decade has been buttressed by the demographic dividend resulting from a large portion of its population — around 65 percent on average — being of working age.
Kenya: The troubles of a science PhD from the West
NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 27 2019 (IPS) - Graduate students of the London School of Economics and Political Science gathered at Kenya’s coast in September 2018, where the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Dr Mukhisa Kituyi told them: “With your international credibility, it is easier and tempting to leave and take out of the continent the little ...
Peter Kamalingin - Author - Inter Press Service
The corona virus pandemic is impacting Africa’s population in quite differentiated ways and is significantly entrenching inequality. At the greatest risk are lives and livelihoods of the poor.
Huge moment for Ethiopia as Abiy Ahmed wins Nobel Peace prize
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (centre wearing sunglasses) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday. He is pictured here in Addis Ababa with Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta …
Cross-country Differences in Income Inequality - Inter Press Service
Sep 1 2016 - In recent years, there has been a growing interest among general people, researchers and policymakers in income inequality, its causes, and its effects. The most popular index of income inequality is the ‘Gini index’, which measures the inequality among levels of income of the people of any country.
Population and security - Inter Press Service
2018年10月24日 · Explore: Exploding population bomb One of the highest population growth rates and a huge youth bulge have created an extremely dangerous situation for Pakistan. We could have used our demographic power to turn around the country’s economy, but with little investment in education and slow economic growth, the youth bulge is fast becoming a liability and serious threat to the country’s ...
SPAIN: Nowhere to Turn - Inter Press Service
2005年11月25日 · Alicia Fraerman. MADRID, Nov 25 2005 (IPS) - Immigrant women are the least protected against domestic violence in Spain, since they often have nowhere to turn for help, civil society groups underscored Friday, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Nevertheless, activists say the situation has begun to improve. The estimated 700,000 undocumented women immigrants ...
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Trujillo's Victims Seek Justice, Nearly Five ...
2007年5月31日 · Diógenes Pina. SANTO DOMINGO, May 31 2007 (IPS) - Forty-six years after the death of Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, human rights groups and victims’ families are seeking justice for the murders, torture, kidnappings and illegal arrests committed against thousands of people during his 1930-1961 regime. A lawsuit was filed Wednesday against a group of former agents of the ...