By Global Issues BANGKOK, Thailand, Aug 09 (IPS) – The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are relevant to all countries, whether high, middle or low income. With increasing attention to the SDGs, countries are progressively turning to data as a source to assess and validate the progress that they have made towards achieving them. Read the […]
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By Global Issues KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug 09 (IPS) – The primary commodity price boom early this century has often been attributed to a commodity ‘super-cycle’, i.e., a price upsurge greater than what might be expected in ‘normal’ booms. This was largely due to some minerals as most agricultural commodity price increases were more modest. […]
By Global Issues STEPANAKERT, Nagorno-Karabakh, Aug 08 (IPS) – Tatev Azizyan, a 28-year-old journalist from Nagorno-Karabakh, says she has explained to her child that they both have to switch to “energy save mode” to survive. Read the full story, “Blockade in Nagorno-Karabakh: When Bread and Sanitary Pads Become Luxury Items”, on globalissues.org → Source: Blockade […]