The Fourth Industrial Revolution in the Developing Nations: Challenges and Road MapBy Sohail Asghar, Gulmina Rextina, Tanveer Ahmed & Manzoor Illahi Tamimy
Technological advancements and the amalgamation of several fields, including Advanced Robotics, Artificial (more...)
Western Indian Ocean (WIO) Regional Meeting of the High Level Panel (HLP) on the Sustainable Ocean Economy Report
African countries called for action to address issues that are unique to Africa on fisheries, climate change and ocean health and wealth and discussed an African (more...)
Major Outcomes of the 2019 World Health AssemblyBy Mirza Alas and Nirmalya Syam
This policy brief provides an overview of the outcomes of selected agenda items that were discussed at the 72nd session of the World Health Assembly (WHA) of the World Health Organization (WHO), (more...)
Enabling and Benefitting from Tax Avoidance: The Case of Canada in Africa’s Extractive SectorBy Alexander Ezenagu, PhD
The treatment of multinational entities as separate entities for tax purposes is incompatible with economic reality. As such, multinational (more...)
Intellectual Property and Plant Protection: Developments and Challenges in AsiaDr. Kamalesh Adhikari
The creation of legal regimes to protect exclusive intellectual property rights over new plant varieties is not a recent phenomenon. National laws that recognise (more...)
Second Medical Use Patents – Legal Treatment and Public Health IssuesBy Clara Ducimetière
This paper attempts to give an overview of the debate surrounding the patentability of new therapeutic uses for known active ingredients, both in developed (more...)
Lights Go Out at the WTO’s Appellate Body Despite Concessions Offered to USBy Danish and Aileen Kwa
As of 11 December 2019, the Appellate Body (AB) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been rendered non-functional. This policy brief provides a summary of the issues (more...)
Medicines and Intellectual Property: 10 Years of the WHO Global StrategyBy Dr. Germán Velásquez
The negotiations of the Intergovernmental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property (IGWG) (2006-2008), undertaken by the Member States of the (more...)
Vacancy Announcement – National Technical Coordinator, Green Climate Fund Readiness Project in Lebanon
The South Centre was established in 1995 as a permanent inter-Governmental organization of developing countries. It has full intellectual independence in (more...)
Request for Proposals: Computers
The South Centre seeks proposals from vendors in order to select a vendor that can provide the best competitive rates for the Computers (as mentioned in Annex 1 of the document in the link below).
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The State of Play of Climate Finance – UNFCCC Funds and the $100 Billion Question By Mariama Williams; editing support and data by Rajesh Eralil
Climate finance is key to achieving the ambitions set out in the Paris Agreement as well as in fulfilling the climate (more...)
Title: South Centre and African Union capacity building for African countries on the effective use of TRIPS flexibilities to protect public healthDate: 18-19 December, 2019
Venue: Cape Town, South Africa (more...)