UN : Global economic growth to slow sharply due to multiple shocks (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Geneva)
Global economic growth is projected to decelerate from an estimated 3 per cent in 2022 to 1.9 per cent in 2023, ma rking one of the lowest growth rates in recent decades, a new United Nations repo rt has said.

Finance : How (much) are you today? (PRIV)
(IPS, Madrid)
Gone are those times when catastrophes were measured in terms of human suffering.

Chile : Mapuche Indians hurt by rejection of a plurinational constitution (PRIV)
(IPS, Santiago)
Mapuche indigenous leaders were hi t hard by what they see as a collective defeat: the rejection in a September referendum of a plurinational, inter-cultural constitution proposed to Chil e by an unprecedented constituent assembly with gender parity and indigenous representatives.