Carina VANCE, Ecuador, is Executive Director of the South American Institute of Government in Health (ISAGS). She was the former Minister of Public Health of Ecuador. The period of time in which Ms. Vance held the position of Minister of Public Health of Ecuador, having been (more...)
Exploding Public and Private Debt, Declining ODA and FDI, Lower World GDP and Trade Growth—Developing Countries Facing a ConundrumBy Yuefen LI
Recently international institutions repeatedly cut the projections for world gross domestic product (GDP) growth of (more...)
2030 Sustainable Development Agenda with Focus on Education Goal - SDG 4By Kishore Singh
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all” of the 2030 Agenda for (more...)
Access to Medicines: Experiences with Compulsory Licenses and Government Use - The case of Hepatitis CBy Dr. Carlos M. Correa and Dr. Germán Velásquez
This South Centre research paper discusses first, the limitations of the current research and development (more...)
Challenges of Investment Treaties on Policy Areas of Concern to Developing CountriesBy Kinda Mohamadieh
Country experiences have revealed that international investment agreements (IIAs) could have an adverse policy impact on various policy areas that are generally (more...)
The ‘obvious to try’ method of addressing strategic patenting: How developing countries can utilise patent law to facilitate access to medicinesBy Olga Gurgula
The current patentability standards for pharmaceutical inventions, as well as strategic patenting (more...)
Tax Haven Listing in Multiple Hues: Blind, Winking or Conniving?By Jahanzeb Akhtar and Verónica Grondona
Tax havens are among the biggest challenges faced by developing countries in achieving their national development goals. States, international (more...)
South Centre Quarterly Report, 1 January to 31 March 2019
This report summarizes the programmatic activities of the South Centre during the period 1st January to 31st March 2019. It is intended to provide information, organized by Program and themes, about recent (more...)