By J Nastranis NEW YORK (IDN) – While UN Secretary-General António Guterres in a statement released on October 19, said that he is “deeply troubled” by the reported confirmation of the death of Jamal Khashoggi, independent UN human rights experts have commended business leaders who have decided to pull out of a high-level investment conference […]
China Lacking a Clear Strategy for Overseas Investments
Viewpoint by Xie Ping The author is professor at the PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University and is former executive vice president of China Investment Corporation. This article first appeared on October 8, 2018 in EastAsiaForum. BEIJING (IDN-INPS) – China has become one of the world’s biggest investors. The explosive growth of its outward investment […]
India’s Free Trade Woes in the Face of Deteriorating Balance
Viewpoint by Biswajit Dhar The author is Professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University. This article first appeared on October 9, 2018 in EastAsiaForum. NEW DELHI (IDN-INPS) – Leaders at the sixth Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Ministerial Meeting in August 2018 appear to have taken […]
Southern Africa Experiencing Energy Boom
By Jeffrey Moyo LUSAKA (IDN) – Letina Phiri waits at a bus terminus in Lusaka, the Zambian capital, as loaders carry her baggage of huge solar panels to pack on the bus. “I will sell some of the panels as soon as I get home. Where I live, not far from Kabwe town, many people […]
A Provocative and Inspiring Look at the Future of Humanity
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – “Suppose aliens existed, and that some had been watching our planet for its entire forty-five million centuries, what would they have seen? Over most of that vast time-span, Earth’s appearance altered very gradually. Continents drifted; ice-cover waxed and waned; successive species emerged, evolved and became extinct. But […]
Zimbabweans Urged Calm as Economy Veers Toward Collapse
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | HARARE (IDN) – Citing “these difficult times,” Kentucky Fried Chicken has closed its doors, prices are soaring, bread shelves are empty and fear is growing that an economic collapse is bearing down on a fragile population that was so full of hope not long ago. Under […]
Young Medical Worker Executed by Boko Haram Caliphate
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – “We urge you: spare and release these women,” begged Patricia Danzi, director of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Africa. .. “Like all those abducted, they are not part of any fight.” “They are daughters and sisters, one is a mother – women […]
Foreign Direct Investment on Decline, Leaves Developing Countries Unaffected
By Ronald Joshua GENEVA (IDN) – Foreign direct investment is critical for developing and emerging market countries. Their companies need the multinationals’ funding and expertise to expand their international sales. The countries need private investment in infrastructure, energy, and water to increase jobs and wages. In fact the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) […]
Trust Deficit Disorder Jeopardising Sustainable Development
By António Guterres The following are extensive extracts from UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to finance ministers and central bank governors at the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) in Bali, Indonesia, on October 13, 2018. Stressing that the meeting was taking place “at a time of enormous uncertainty”, he cautioned that high debts in […]
UN Urges Saudi Arabia to Release All Incarcerated Women Human Rights Defenders
By Jamshed Baruah GENEVA (IDN) – For the second time since July 31, UN human rights experts are calling on Saudi Arabia to “immediately and unconditionally” release all women human rights defenders, including six imprisoned on charges relating to their peaceful defence of human rights. The detained have been charged for being involved in pro-democracy […]