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AFRICA: Civil Society to AU: Investment Must Address Marginalisation
By Diletta Varlese, Terna Gyuse and Joyce Mulama
Sirte, LIBYA, CAPE TOWN and NAIROBI - No gathering hosted by Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi is ever dull, and the Thirteenth Ordinary Session of the African Union, concluding in Sirte, Libya today has not disappointed.
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AUSTRALIA: Attacks Expose Ills Of A Much-Touted Education System
By Neena Bhandari
SYDNEY - The modern façade of its cities, cost-effectiveness and its high standards of education make Australia an attractive destination for foreign students. But the recent spate of attacks on Indian students has exposed the many ills afflicting the Australian education system, threatening its lucrative markets.
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MIDEAST: Elderly Receiving Better Care
By N. Janardhan
DOHA - In a region where indigenous human resources are scarce, the oil-rich Gulf countries are not only mindful of population growth, but are quickly learning to address the concerns of the elderly.
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SOUTHEAST ASIA: Regional Rights Body Dismissed as "Toothless"
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Southeast Asia is weeks away from getting its own regional human rights body, but not everyone is cheering the birth of this new mechanism due to be approved at a foreign ministers’ meeting here. Least of all the region’s vibrant human rights community, spread across the 10 countries that belong to the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN).
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TECHNOLOGY: Rare Metals Could Trigger Next Trade War
By Emilio Godoy*
MEXICO CITY - Used in electric car motors and wind turbines, neodymium, a "rare earth metal," is at the epicentre of the race between wealthy and emerging nations to create green technologies, while poorer countries appear to be relegated to spectator status.
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DEVELOPMENT: Not Another Missed Opportunity, Civil Society Urges
By Ayesha Gooneratne
UNITED NATIONS - A coalition of civil society organisations called the Global Social Economy Group (GSEG) is pressing for the immediate and long-term financing needs of developing countries to take centre-stage at the U.N. Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis.
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ECONOMY: "Patching Up Bretton Woods Makes No Sense"
By Haider Rizvi
UNITED NATIONS - The world community must take immediate action to overhaul the current global financial system – that's what a vast majority of political leaders and policymakers from the developing world who are attending a three-day U.N. conference on the global economic crisis are saying.
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DEVELOPMENT: Western Aid Declines, Financial Bailouts Mount
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - As the world's poorer nations warn about the gravity of the global financial crisis on their fragile economies, the United Nations has exposed the hypocrisy of Western donors who cry poverty even while they raise trillions of dollars to rescue their beleaguered financial institutions.
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ECONOMY: More Democracy the Cure for Broken System, U.N. Says
By Henry Parr
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations General Assembly kicked off a three-day conference on the world financial crisis Wednesday with calls for a substantial overhaul of the decades-long model under which the world's richest countries set the terms of global fiscal and trade policy.
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DEVELOPMENT: China Lends Support to U.N. Finance Summit
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING - China has lent its support to a U.N. finance summit where developing countries are pressing to air their grievances over how the global economic crisis has affected the world’s poorest. Yet, for the largest developing country the crisis remains a debacle with a silver lining - a matchless opportunity to accomplish its dream of regaining the regional and global clout it once held, and fast forward its ambitions.
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Q&A: U.N.'s Enormous Potential Being Marginalised
Thalif Deen interviews MIGUEL D'ESCOTO BROCKMANN, President of the General Assembly
UNITED NATIONS - An international conference on the global financial crisis - hosted by the United Nations - is being marginalised by Western countries which have refused to send any of their political leaders to the meeting.
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POLITICS: World Bank, IMF Heads Skip Summit on Global Crisis
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - When a major international conference on financing for development took place in the Qatari capital of Doha last November, the heads of both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) skipped the meeting.
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ASIA: Regional Railway Links Aim to Boost Trade, Cooperation
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - A train journey from Singapore to Shanghai may not be the stuff of dreams anymore. So too the prospect of travel by rail from Seoul to Samarkand.
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POLITICS: Is West Undermining Summit on Financial Crisis?
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - When a Western diplomat was asked whether his country would be represented by a head of state at next week's U.N. summit meeting on the global financial crisis, his response was tinged with sarcasm and contempt.
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POLITICS: India Takes Security Concerns to Shanghai Summit
By Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s participation in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit at Yekaterinburg Tuesday appears to have been motivated chiefly by the security environment in the region shaping up around Washington’s ‘AfPak’ policy.
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DEVELOPMENT: China Reins in Dam Builders
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING - Beijing has reined in China’s unbridled dam-building spree, issuing warnings to power-hungry developers that stimulating the economy in a time of crisis should not be used as an excuse to forego environmental reviews of big hydroelectric projects.
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DEVELOPMENT: Asia Pacific Tourism on Road to Recovery
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - As it battles to regain its stature, one of the world's most resilient industries - tourism - is expected to overcome the current global economic recession at least by next year.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: China Rallying South to Defend Right to Development
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING - As the December deadline for reaching a global climate deal in Copenhagen approaches, China is claiming leadership - rallying emerging economies to defend their rights to development and strike bargaining positions with rich nations.
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ECONOMY-AFRICA: One of These States Is Not Like the Others...
By Kristin Palitza
CAPE TOWN - African economic experts at the World Economic Forum on Africa have called for a regional approach to the global financial crisis, but South Africa - the continent’s strongest economy - does not want to play ball.
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POLITICS: A Caribbean Union, European-Style
By Peter Richards
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - – If Trinidad and Tobago and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) are to embark on their long touted economic and political union by 2013, it would involve the surrender of some political power to a European-style commission.
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Q&A: South-South Cooperation Key to Tackling Ageing Populations
N. Janardhan interviews Jose Miguel Guzman, Chief, Population and Development Division, UNFPA
DOHA - While explaining the reasons for rapid economic growth during the last decade and showcasing their potential for future development, many developing countries in Asia and Latin America highlight the strength of their youth population. But, they are also increasingly becoming aware of their aging populations - which could be converted into a source of strength rather than a liability.
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News in RSSThere is more to South-South cooperation than making the right noises at international gatherings. South-South cooperation – collaboration between developing countries - is a growing and dynamic phenomenon, an important process that is vital in confronting shared challenges.

Led by emerging giants India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) the South is a tremendous source of tested solutions to development challenges including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

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THE EMERGENCE OF THE SOUTH
    by Supachai Panitchpakdi
JUNE 2008 (IPS) - A fundamental transformation has taken place in the structure of the world economy. The dominant feature of this transformation is the emergence of the South. Indeed, the global expansion of the past five years has been more broad-based than even before. This has allowed many developing countries to become major players in trade and investment, writes Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary-General of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and former Director-General of the World Trade Organisation.
EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT: THE RISKS OF INACTION
    by Yash Tandon
MAY 2008 (IPS/South Centre) - There is much to celebrate in the growth and development of the South in recent years, from the ability of certain Latin American countries to avoid dependence on the North to the growth of the economies of certain Asian countries whose increasing sovereign wealth is now being tapped to bail out distressed banks in the North. While there are signs of growth in Africa too, the continent is worse off than the rest of the South, writes Yash Tandon, Executive Director of the South Centre.
SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION: THE ASIAN EXPERIENCE
    by Biswajit Nag
APRIL 2008 (IPS) - Over the years South-South Cooperation has evolved from merely sharing technical know-how to cooperation for a comprehensive socio-economic transformation, writes Biswajit Nag, associate professor at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi, India.
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