South-South Global Thinkers
South-South Ideas: Sustainable Rubber Value Chain Development: Analyzing Myanmar’s Opportunities and Challenges for Green Transformation for South-South Cooperation
Myanmar’s rubber sector is at a critical juncture. Rubber production in the country is projected to increase in the coming years while international market demands suggest a continuing downward price trend for natural rubber. Among a few agriculture value chains that...
South-South Ideas: South-South Cooperation Coherence in a Complex Assistance Framework for Development – the Case of Nigeria
Due to the lack of a systematic framework to account for and compare SSC experiences and interventions, this study attempts to address this key shortcoming by proposing a theoretical framework useful for comparison and assessment of SSC initiatives. A framework was...
South-South Ideas: South-Report on the Potential for Monitoring and Evaluation of Special Economic Zones in Bangladesh
This research report presents the results of a scoping visit realized in Bangladesh to assess the potential of its new Economic Zone (EZ) programme for inclusion as a pilot in the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) programme for Special Economic Zones (SEZs)...
South-South Ideas: Renewable Energy in the Middle East and North Africa Region – Potential and Limits
Over the last several years, there has been a commitment to spur unprecedented deployment of renewables across Middle East and North African (MENA) countries. According to the last International Renewable Energy Agency report, the amount of renewable investment will...