Compilation of Extracts from Selected Country Statements during 73rd World Health Assembly supporting Access to Health Products on COVID-19The compilation below was done on the basis of published statements on the WHO website ( (more...)
La pandémie de COVID-19 : R&D et gestion de la propriété intellectuelle pour l'accès aux tests diagnostiques, aux médicaments et aux vaccinsPar Viviana Muñoz Tellez
La propagation rapide actuelle du COVID-19 met à l'épreuve la capacité des gouvernements (more...)
Comments to the FACTI Panel on improving cooperation in tax matters
The South Centre Tax Initiative (SCTI) would like to draw the attention of the Financial Accountability Transparency and Integrity (FACTI) Panel to the following aspects of improving international tax (more...)
National Measures on Taxing the Digital EconomyBy Veronica Grondona, Abdul Muheet Chowdhary, Daniel Uribe
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)'s Inclusive Framework is considering a two-pillar approach on taxing the digital economy. (more...)
Vacancy Announcement: Consultant - International Climate Policy Expert (Lebanon’s Green Climate Fund Readiness Project)
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is the world’s largest dedicated fund helping developing countries to act on climate (more...)
The post-Covid world needs a new social contractBy Alfred de ZayasThe post-Covid world requires a new social contract. The United Nations Secretary-General should (more...)
Taxing the Digital Economy to Fund the COVID-19 ResponseBy Abdul Muheet Chowdhary and Daniel Uribe Teran
The COVID-19 pandemic has weakened global economic growth, raising pressures on revenue authorities to fund the fiscal stimulus necessary to contain the spread of (more...)
Spotlight: Arab region and the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action
Regional Round-up on progress in implementing the Beijing Platform for Action in light of the upcoming 25th anniversary of the platform Spotlight: Arab region (more...)
South Centre Statement at the 73rd World Health Assembly (WHA)
Today we are facing a global health, economic and social crisis, the most serious in the last hundred years. The resolution adopted by this World Health Assembly on COVID 19 should have been more ambitious given the (more...)
COVID-19 and WTO: Debunking Developed Countries’ Narratives on Trade MeasuresBy Aileen Kwa, Fernando Rosales and Peter Lunenborg
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, developing countries at the World Trade Organization (WTO) are faced with demands to i) permanently (more...)