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The pace of digitization has picked up with the onset of Industry 4.0 or the fourth industrial revolution and with the growing use of digital technologies in traditional manufacturing and service activities. Decisions along the entire value chain of production and distribution have been affected as well as impacting the consumer behavior and factor markets, [...]

The “rise of the South”, as some have called it, has prompted much speculation about the “decoupling” of growth in developing countries from that of advanced economies. This phenomenon has likewise led to much enthusiasm about new approaches to global governance. Yet, for as much as the so-called rise of the South has prompted enthusiasm, [...]

Download PDF This paper by UNCTAD explores the long-standing and controversial issue of statistics on South-South cooperation (SSC). Statistical systems on SSC are extremely weak across the board. The problems with measurement stem in essence from conceptual challenges with defining SSC and the political apprehensions associated with such exercises. This paper unpacks some of the [...]

The BRICS are a driving force in the global economy, and the global labour market, representing almost 44 per cent of the word’s labour force. Overall, the BRICS countries (that is Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) have seen a significant move away from vulnerable employment towards wage employment of 6.6 percentage points, well [...]

South-South Ideas paper by Dr. Milindo Chakrabarti, visiting fellow at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) and a professor at the O.P. Jindal Global University, India. This paper constructs a hypothesis that South-South trade based on the logic of sharing may provide an alternative way to guide international trade and help reduce the scourge [...]

South-South Ideas paper by Wen Chen, Jiajun Xu and Jia Yu, from the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University. Prompted by fast-rising wages, the graduation of China from labour-intensive manufacturing has opened up a golden window of opportunity for the other low-wage Southern countries to kick-start industrialization by attracting Chinese labour-intensive light manufacturing [...]

In Colombia, International Development Cooperation is experiencing a moment of transition, new scenarios, challenges, and new development actors, where the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the central axis, and against which new financing mechanisms should be sought to improve the effectiveness of cooperation. To meet these challenges and [...]

Colombia South-South Cooperation Portfolio was developed by APC Colombia as a collection of highly recognized best practices developed by entities in the country. The portfolio includes practices aligned with current Colombian Foreign Policy objectives that directly contribute to the 2030 Agenda implementation framework, along with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals. For this document, best practices [...]