2006/09/26
Global tech imbalance causes new inequalities
Imbalanced access to communication technologies has generated new inequalities, according to Social Watch, a coalition of 400 NGOs in 60 countries.

2006/09/19
World Bank Profits From Poor Countries - Report
SINGAPORE, Sep 19 (IPS) - The World Bank receives more from developing countries than what it disburses to them says a new report released Tuesday as finance ministers endorsed a controversial new Bank plan to tackle corruption in developing countries.

2006/09/16
Bank slams Singapore crackdown
WORLD Bank President Paul Wolfowitz has criticized Singapore's restrictions on the entry of activists for the World Bank-International Monetary Fund meetings, describing the clampdown as authoritarian.

2006/09/15
Singapore to admit activists after stinging World Bank criticism
Singapore on Friday backed down on its reluctance to admit some activists accredited for World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings, saying 22 of the 27 would now be allowed entry.

2006/08/27
Gov't urged to invest more in millennium goals
Professor Leonor M. Briones, Social Watch Philippine co-convener and chairman of the Silliman University Board of Trustees posed the question in her book "Moving Forward with the Millennium Development Goals: May Pera Pa ba?"

2006/08/26
Parliamentary Profligacy. fe’s weekly snapshot from busy blogs
According to a report prepared by the National Social Watch Coalition, titled ‘Citizens Report on Development and Governance—2006,’ India’s current Parliamentary expenditure is Rs 72 lakh per day.

2006/07/20
G8 trade talks 'typical of flawed process'
Last ditch trade talks "typical of flawed process". Rich Countries' efforts during the G8 summit to force through a deal in the beleaguered World Trade Organization talks have been criticised by campaigners for sidelining the world's poorest nations.

2006/07/14
Minimum wage hike in New Brunswick is still not enough professor says
On July 1, the minimum wage in New Brunswick increased 20 cents to $6.70 per hour, an adjustment UNB professor Thom Workman calls "political tokenism." "It isn't at all significant, 20 cents doesn't go far enough to turn the minimum wage into a living wage," said Dr. Workman, a political science professor who specializes in Atlantic Canadian wage policy. He thinks living standards for the lower echelons of New Brunswick society have stagnated or even decreased over the past 30 years.

2006/07/13
Canada: Minimum wage is still not enough
A full-time person working for the new minimum wage in New Brunswick earns roughly $13,400 per year before deductions, barely enough to support a single person, let alone a family. On July 1, the minimum wage in New Brunswick increased 20 cents to $6.70 per hour, an adjustment that UNB professor Thom Workman calls "political tokenism.”

2006/06/27
RP debt service totals P721.7 B, study shows
The Philippines is allocating P721.7 billion in debt service, with P340 billion going to the interest and P381 billion meant to pay for the principal amortization. This means an allocation of P1.98 billion per day which is equivalent to the building of 7,920 classrooms or 250 kilometers of roads per day.