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The South-South Executive Brief features news stories, analyses and high-level interviews focusing on increasing bilateral, trilateral, regional and inter-regional relations among developing countries.
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HEALTH: Strategy to Cut Vaccine Price Paying Off
By Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON - The price of a major combination vaccine called the 'pentavalent' has fallen considerably over the past year, bringing the cost per dose below three dollars - a decrease of almost 50 cents, according to data released Wednesday by an alliance of public and private partners who have worked to bring down vaccine prices in the developing world.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Small Islands Fear Going the Way of Atlantis
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The world's small island states, most of which are painfully vulnerable to the ravages of climate change, have put the United Nations on notice.
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AFRICA: Taking the Lead on Water
By Zenzele Ndebele and Nasseem Ackbarally
MIDRAND, South Africa - Water is a resource that binds people together, for better or worse.
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Q&A: No 'One-Size-Fits-All' for Surging South-South Cooperation
Thalif Deen interviews SUPACHAI PANITCHPAKDI, Secretary-General of UNCTAD
UNITED NATIONS - A major international conference on South-South cooperation is scheduled to take place early December in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi against the backdrop of a rising trend in regional economic integration in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
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DEVELOPMENT: South-South Unity to Get Boost at U.N. Meet
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - As the global financial crisis continues to ravage the fragile economies of the world's poorer countries, the United Nations is hosting a high-level international conference next month to boost South-South cooperation.
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HEALTH: Southern Researchers Fill Gap on Neglected Diseases
By Stephen Leahy
CANCUN, Mexico - With HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis occupying the global health spotlight, few resources are devoted to the "neglected tropical diseases" like dengue fever, hookworm infection and schistosomiasis that afflict some one billion people.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Budgeting Environmental Justice
Analysis by Julio Godoy
COPENHAGEN - There is a consensus that industrialised nations are mainly responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. It should be equally clear that such responsibility should have political consequences. But it isn't.
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ECONOMY-SOUTH AMERICA: Chinese Competition Undermines Integration
By Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's products are losing ground in the rest of South America, mainly because of the flood of low-cost Chinese goods – a trend that is also exacerbating the region's dependence on commodity exports.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Africa Readies United Front for Crucial Copenhagen Talks
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - As African leaders meet in Ethiopia to discuss the devastating impacts of climate change, the United Nations has released a report warning that the economically-troubled continent will be one of the hardest hit by the ravages of global warming.
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AFRICA: Deal with Guinea Raises Questions About Chinese Role
By Matthew Berger
WASHINGTON - Reports of a large infrastructure and minerals agreement between Guinea and Chinese investors this week have turned a harsh spotlight on the human rights and geopolitical stakes of the scramble for Africa's natural wealth.
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AFRICA: "Grasp the Benefits of Trade with BRIC Emerging Markets"
By Jedi Ramalapa
JOHANNESBURG - While economists at a prominent South African bank are excited about burgeoning investment by Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) in Africa, they are vague on the question of the extent to which it will benefit the majority of Africans. Ensuring this, they believe, is the responsibility of African states themselves.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: New Financial Scheme Turns Heat on Rich Nations
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - A new financial mechanism to help the developing world deal with the challenges posed by climate change looms as a major hurdle on the road leading up to a United Nations summit in Copenhagen in mid-December.
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MEDIA: South-South Radio from Caracas to Africa
By Mildred Pineda
CARACAS - Poverty, attacks on human rights and corporate fraud will be among the main news coverage focuses of a new regional public radio network, Radio del Sur, which will link stations from South America and Africa.
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IRAN: Non-Western Big Powers Enjoy Growing Influence
Analysis by Helena Cobban*
WASHINGTON - Thursday's seven-party talks in Geneva on Iran's nuclear programme resulted in a breakthrough agreement on Russian enrichment of materials Tehran needs for nuclear-medical work.
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FINANCE: World Bank Head Acknowledges Shifting Global Order
By Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON - The world economic crisis has called attention to shifting international power structures as emerging economies gain more influence and the failure of globalisation to assist the poorest countries becomes clear, said World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick in anticipation of the bank's annual meeting in Istanbul, Turkey next week.
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CARIBBEAN: British Jurist Rekindles Debate on Colonial-Era Court
By Peter Richards
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Whether or not his words were meant to rekindle debate on the merits of a Caribbean court, the statement by British jurist Lord Phillips that "in an ideal world" the former Commonwealth countries would stop using the Privy Council and instead set up their own final courts of appeal has done just that.
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SOUTH AMERICA-AFRICA: Coming Together to Fight Poverty
By Humberto Márquez
PORLAMAR, Venezuela - A declaration that puts an accent on the positions of the developing South and expresses a renewed commitment to cooperation in the fight against poverty and for development was signed by the leaders who met over the weekend in the second South America-Africa summit, on the Venezuelan island of Margarita.
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SOUTH AMERICA-AFRICA: Summit for South-South Cooperation
By Humberto Márquez
PORLAMAR, Venezuela - South American and African leaders are meeting over the weekend on the Caribbean island of Margarita in their second summit in three years, to forge stronger cooperation between the two regions and discuss their positions with regard to a number of pressing international concerns.
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G20: Rising Above the G8
Analysis by Sanjay Suri
PITTSBURGH - Something that was perhaps only half-expected has happened in Pittsburgh: the G20 has moved on from being an event to becoming an institution.
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G20: An Emerging Development
Analysis by Sanjay Suri
PITTSBURGH - Almost before anyone knew it, a new language has become current leading up to the two-day G20 meet in Pittsburgh that divides the world in ways that seem suitable at the high table of the day. The new tiers are the developed, the emerging, and of course the poor.
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SOUTH AMERICA-AFRICA: New Summit to Boost Cooperation
By Humberto Márquez
CARACAS - Heads of state and other officials from 54 African and 12 South American nations will meet for the Second Africa-South America Summit this Saturday and Sunday on Isla Margarita, Venezuela, to boost cooperation in a score of areas with potential for greater bi-regional exchange.
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There is more to South-South cooperation than making the right noises at international gatherings. South-South cooperation – collaboration between developing countries - is a growing and dynamic phenomenon, an important process that is vital in confronting shared challenges.

Led by emerging giants India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) the South is a tremendous source of tested solutions to development challenges including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).