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’Sharing Best Practices: Addressing RH, Population and Development Challenges’ contains eleven best practices documented from Partners in Population and Development (PPD) member countries, geared towards resolving issues related to reproductive health, population and socioeconomic development. These innovative experiences have potential to be scaled up and replicated in different contexts, in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...