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South Bulletin (South Centre, Issue 59, 12 March 2012): South Centre Seminar Warns of Effects of Economic Downturn on the South

This issue of South Bulletin (12 March 2012) focuses on several events linked to the South Centre’s Board and Council meetings and held on 31 January – 3 February 2012 in Geneva.

The main article briefly reports on the South Centre’s Seminar on the Global Economic Downturn and Current Multilateral Negotiations, held on 2-3 February in Geneva.Conference speakers warned that developing countries had not de-coupled from the advanced economies and would be adversely affected in different ways by the new global economic slowdown. This issue also gives a report on the Board and Council meetings and on the Centre’s key activities in 2011.

Other highlights of the Bulletin:

  • An analysis by Chakravarthi Raghavan on the current state of the WTO as developed countries move from the old bicycle theory to a new “snowball approach” to get their ideas accepted;
  • Why plurilateral negotiations on services are neither good for developing countries nor the WTO;
  • African Union Summit takes a step towards an Africa-wide FTA and integration;
  • BASIC Ministers affirm that the Durban Platform (on Climate Change) must be in full accordance with the equity principle in UNFCCC;
  • Brazil – a country on the go;
  • South Centre welcomes Ecuador as its newest member.

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