Topic: United Nations
GENEVA (Reuters) - The pursuit of austerity measures and deficit cuts is pushing the world economy toward disaster in a misguided attempt to please global financial markets, the annual report of the United Nations economic thinktank UNCTAD said on Tuesday.The report, entitled ...
OSLO (Reuters) - Recession drove industrialized nations' greenhouse gas emissions down 5.6 percent in 2009 but analysts said the plunge may be a brief, misleading sign of progress in slowing climate change.Emissions by about 40 nations fell to the equivalent of 16.5 ...
OSLO (Reuters) - Recession drove European Union greenhouse gas emissions down by a record 7.2 percent in 2009, putting the bloc ahead of schedule in making promised cuts, EU data showed on Wednesday."The strength of the 2009 recession affected all economic sectors ...
The United Nations warned Wednesday that world growth in the next two years will not be enough to recover jobs lost in the financial crisis and that key countries could be heading for a double-dip recession.The United States, Japan and major European ...
There are many indications that the global recession will cause a new world order in the near future. National governments have been meeting in secrecy for years to discuss the best way to 'sell' the populace on the idea of world government ...
I am not a professional in the field of finance. I than invested 100 units of Pengrowth Energy Trust (PGF.UN). A good example of those companies would be Pembina Pipeline Income Fund (PIF.UN). On April 14, 2009, Pembina Pipeline Income Fund had ...
It's almost an year since I have posted here. I don't feel like coming back but just an urge to give a last message because of the Financial Crisis that just happened. We are now in sight of a United Nations that ...
In a swift, surreal scene change, revealing competing pressures pulling at his presidency, Barack Obama Wednesday skipped from a humble suburban backyard to the citadel of world diplomacy at the UN.The juxtaposition of domestic politics and foreign policy reflected the complexity of ...
Several letters to the editor are presented in response to the articles of " Children Young People Now" (CYP Now) including the comments of the United Nations' (UN) Committee on the Rights of the Child towards young people that was published in ...
With very few exceptions, 1994 was an excellent year. The world economy finally put a lingering recession behind it, and a vigorous recovery, accompanied by low inflation, was in train. (See Table I and Table IV. {3}Excluding Albania, China, North Korea, Vietnam, ...
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