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Privatization Promotes Collusion and Corruption
Privatization is expected by many to promote competition and eliminate corruption. In practice, the converse has been true as privatization beneficiaries have successfully colluded ...
Lost in the Cyberworld? The Enigmatic Mr Assange
By Jan LundiusSTOCKHOLM / ROME, Apr 23 2019 – Trump´s electoral success was preceded by a rise of chauvinistic politics in most of Europe, paired with electoral triumphs of far-right ...
Against All Odds, Indigenous Villages Generate Their Own Energy in Guatemala
Diego Matom, a member of the Ixil indigenous community, poses happily with his family, surrounded by fresh loaves of bread which were baked thanks to community electricity generation, ...
Bleak Outlook for Press Freedom in West Africa
By Lahai J. SambomaLONDON, Apr 23 2019 – When former footballer George Weah became president of Liberia in 2018, media practitioners felt they had in him a democrat who would ...
Why Climate Action Plans are not Good Enough to Deliver a Low-Carbon Future in Cities
Illustration by Cliff van Thillo
By Karishma AsarpotaDUBAI, Apr 23 2019 – Though climate policies aim to reduce GHG emissions, they miss out on emphasizing the importance of ...
Economic Empowerment of Women Good for All
Attendees at an FAO sub-regional training workshop on gender and livestock in Harare, Zimbabwe.
By Kingsley IghoborUNITED NATIONS, Apr 22 2019 – Government staffer Souhayata ...
Global Energy Consumption is Up — So Are Emissions
Illustration: Tarique Aziz
By Sunita NarainNEW DELHI, Apr 22 2019 – Our acceptance of climate change doesn’t keep pace with our energy consumption reduction. However, the ...
International Mother Earth Day
Students from the Agrarian University La Molina in agrometeorology field practice, in Lima, Perú. Photo: WMO/Marlene Dapozzo Moali.
By Editor, UNApr 22 2019 (IPS-Partners)
Mother ...
Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday Carnage: Quo Vadis?
By Purnaka L. de SilvaNEW YORK, Apr 22 2019 – I returned from attending a three-hour Easter Sunday mass at the Fordham University Church around midnight New York time on May ...
