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The Role of China’s Pilot Free Trade Zones in Promoting Institutional Innovation, Industrial Transformation, and South-South Cooperation (UNCTAD, 2023)
The India-UN Development Partnership Fund, a $150 million financial mechanism, champions innovative, Southerndriven, demand-responsive and transformative sustainable development initiatives across the developing world. Remarkably, within just six years, the Fund…

India-UN Fund Year-in-Review Report – November 2023
The India-UN Development Partnership Fund, a $150 million financial mechanism, champions innovative, Southerndriven, demand-responsive and transformative sustainable development initiatives across the developing world. Remarkably, within just six years, the Fund…

China’s Policy Strategies for Green Low-Carbon Development: Perspective from South-South Cooperation (UNCTAD, 2023)
In 2022, UNCTAD published the volume of “China’s Structural Transformation: What can developing countries learn?“. The purpose of the volume was to facilitate peer learning among countries in the Global…

South-South Ideas: Did South-South Cooperation Step Up During the COVID-19 Response? National-Level Experiences & Implications for the Development Cooperation Architecture
This South-South Ideas Paper was developed by the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), under the South-South Global Thinkers initiative. The initiative aims to inform policy dialogues and agenda-setting on South-South…

South-South Ideas: Post-COVID-19 Socioeconomic Policy Responses and South-South Cooperation Opportunities in the Andean Region
This South-South Ideas Paper was developed by Grupo Faro (Ecuador) and Fundación Aru (Bolivia) under the South-South Global Thinkers initiative. The initiative aims to inform policy dialogues and agenda-setting on…

ILO Academy on Labour Migration South-South and Triangular Cooperation Good Practices
Today there are an estimated 281 million international migrants around the world, the majority of whom are migrant workers. Globalization, demographic shifts, conflicts, income inequalities and climate change will encourage…

Triangular Cooperation with the Arab Region: Policies, Perspectives and Practices of DAC Members
Complex, intractable, and persistent development challenges worldwide disproportionately affect the lives of millions in the South. It has become increasingly evident that despite political will and national ownership, developing countries…

Harnessing the Role of Private Sector in Waste Management through South-South and Triangular Cooperation for Inclusive Urbanization
This case study by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) aims to take a snapshot of the municipal waste management ecosystems of certain countries in the Global South, particularly focusing…

South-South Ideas: E-Commerce and Trade Agreements in the Global South – Lessons from the African Continental Free Trade Agreement
While digitalization has triggered the so-called “Fourth Industrial Revolution,” it has also exacerbated discrepancies in technological advancements between developed and developing nations, as well as urban and rural communities. Digital…