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Policy Brief 71, January 2020
Major Outcomes of the 2019 World Health Assembly By 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...)SouthViews No. 189, 17 January 2020
Enabling and Benefitting from Tax Avoidance: The Case of Canada in Africa’s Extractive Sector By Alexander Ezenagu, PhD The treatment of multinational entities as separate entities for tax purposes is incompatible with economic reality. As such, multinational (more...)SouthViews No. 188, 24 December 2019
Intellectual Property and Plant Protection: Developments and Challenges in Asia Dr. 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...)Research Paper 101, December 2019
Second Medical Use Patents – Legal Treatment and Public Health Issues By 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...)Policy Brief 70, December 2019
Lights Go Out at the WTO’s Appellate Body Despite Concessions Offered to US By 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...)Research Paper 100, December 2019
Medicines and Intellectual Property: 10 Years of the WHO Global Strategy By 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, December 2019
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, December 2019
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). For more information: (more...)Climate Policy Brief 21, December 2019
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...)SC and AU capacity building for African countries on effective use of TRIPS flexibilities to protect public health
Title: South Centre and African Union capacity building for African countries on the effective use of TRIPS flexibilities to protect public health Date: 18-19 December, 2019 Venue: Cape Town, South Africa (more...)Book by the South Centre, 2019
International Tax Cooperation: Perspectives from the Global South
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