Comments by the South Centre on the CESCR Draft General Comment on science and economic, social and cultural rights Art. 15: 15.1.b, 15.2, 15.3 and 15.4
The South Centre welcomes the opportunity to submit its comments on the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Right (more...)
Appeal in ISDS: Appealing for the Host State?By Grace L. Estrada
Reforms to Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) are being discussed in the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group III. One possible reform is the development (more...)
The Role of South-South Cooperation in Combatting Illicit Financial FlowsBy Manuel F Montes
Developing countries bear the brunt of costs from illicit financial flows (IFFs). These losses are the result of the facilities that the global system provides transnational (more...)
Vacancy Announcement – Project Research Assistant, 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 working towards (more...)
Eighteen Years After Doha: An Analysis of the Use of Public Health TRIPS Flexibilities in AfricaBy Yousuf A Vawda and Bonginkosi Shozi
As we observe the 18th anniversary of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement (more...)
US-China trade deal: preliminary analysis of the text from WTO perspectiveBy Peter Lunenborg
The long-awaited ‘Phase 1’ trade deal between the United States and China, officially termed the ‘Economic and Trade Agreement between the Government of the United (more...)
Third Annual Developing Country Forum on South-South Cooperation in International Tax Matters (Report)
The South Centre organized, in cooperation with the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), the Ministry of External Affairs and the Ministry of (more...)
South Centre Quarterly Report, 1 October to 31 December 2019
This Quarterly Report summarizes the activities undertaken by the South Centre during the period 1st October to 31 December 2019. It is intended to provide information, organized by themes, about recent (more...)
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...)
