Paul Stracansky
PRAGUE, Jun 16 2010 (IPS) – Senior medical figures in Eastern Europe have issued stark warnings that the region s healthcare sector is both unstable and unsustainable as health workers continue to leave in droves for jobs abroad.
They say thousands are leaving their jobs in their home countries because of poor wages and working conditions.
And some doctors admit privately that the situation is so bad that patients lives are already being endangered by staff shortages.
Unless more money is put into healthcare sector there will be a serious deterioration in patient care in the future, they say.
Dr Zdenek Mrozek, vice-president of the Czech Medical Chamber, told IPS: If nothing is done to improve the situation either in the short term or t…
An estimated half of fresh produce in Papua New Guinea is lost between harvesting and marketing. Credit: Catherine Wilson/IPS
WASHINGTON, Jun 6 2013 (IPS) – A quarter of all food calories grown for human consumption is being lost or wasted, either purposefully or otherwise, according to new estimates.
With high food prices now widely seen as a new normal even as food demand across the globe continues to rapidly expand, advocates and development experts here are calling for concerted national and international action in a way that has not yet been seen.“To a great extent, the scope of this food waste is a technology failure.” — WRI’s Craig Hanson
“T…
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jan 12 2021 (IPS) – The incoming Biden administration is under tremendous pressure to demonstrate better US economic management. Trade negotiations normally take years to conclude, if at all. Unsurprisingly, lobbyists are already urging the next US administration to quickly embrace and deliver a new version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Trump legacy
Repackaging and reselling a TPP avatar will not be easy. Well before Trump’s election, even the official mid-2016 doubted Peterson Institute of International Economics (PIIE) of significant for all.
Unsurprisingly, most major US presidential – even Hillary…