DEVELOPMENT: DOHA, Dec 1 (IPS) - For the past three decades, indebted developing countries have been forced by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank to deregulate financial and labour markets, privatise national ...
DEVELOPMENT: DOHA, Dec 1 (IPS) - The most severe financial crisis since the Great Depression needs massive economic stimulus packages that are coherent and linked with sustainable development imperatives, asserts a new report by top U.N. ...
MEDIA: MADRID, Nov 26 (IPS) - Federico Mayor Zaragoza, chair of the IPS Board of Directors, and Soraya Rodríguez, Spains Secretary of State for International Cooperation, representing that countrys Foreign Ministry, signed an agreement for ...
SRI LANKA: COLOMBO, Nov 26 (IPS) - Incessant rains and flooding in the Vanni, the Tamil rebel stronghold in northern Sri Lanka, are adding to the woes of at least 200,000 people stranded in intensified fighting between the Liberation ...
SRI LANKA: COLOMBO, Nov 19 (IPS) - Sri Lankan national flags hoisted at important locations and posters depicting army offensives against the Tamil rebels are part of week-long celebrations ordered by the government of President Mahinda ...
ECONOMY-SRI LANKA: COLOMBO, Nov 11 (IPS) - President Mahinda Rajapakses annual budget, that increases spending on the armed forces, has drawn mixed reactions. While supporters have welcomed it as a budget that breaks away from dependency ...
SRI LANKA: COLOMBO, Oct 29 (IPS) - Aerial bombings carried out on the capital and a northern military base, late Tuesday night, have signalled that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) remains a fighting force -- despite being ...
SRI LANKA: COLOMBO, Oct 20 (IPS) - As the Sri Lankan army stands poised to overrun the last Tamil rebel strongholds, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called for steps to protect an estimated 220,000 civilians trapped by the ...
POVERTY-AFRICA: By Terna Gyuse & IPS correspondents CAPE TOWN, Oct 18 (IPS) - Eight years ago, the leaders of 189 countries pledged to work towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals, eliminating extreme poverty by 2015. The Stand ...
SRI LANKA: COLOMBO, Oct 11 (IPS) - It might have the script a Tamil blockbuster movie. When Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan, eastern commander of the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), turned renegade in 2004 he could not have ...
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