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General e-update (28 November, 2008)

This e-Update briefs the readers on new South Centre activities, publications, events and opportunities related to trade, intellectual property, climate change, financing for development and global governance.

 

Highlights in this issue of 28 Novembr 2008:

1. South Bulletin: Reflections and Foresights

  • "Why the Ecuadorian Proposal May Be a Better Response to Financial Crisis than the G-20 Declaration" , Issue 27, 16 November 2008
  • "Neoliberal Obscurantism and its Ill-fated Children" , Issue 26, 1 November 2008
2. South Centre @ Financing for Development (FFD), Doha (29 November - 2 December)
  • 30 November (South Centre Side Event): South Perspectives on Challenges and Opportunities Beyond Doha: Systemic Issues and the Need for a New Global Economic Architecture - Sheraton Hotel, Room 1 Waterhole/Laffan Area.
  • 1 December (with European Commission, Governments of Germany and Sweden): Climate Change and Development – How to Mobilize, Transfer and Use Innovative Funding - Sheraton Hotel
 3. Recent South Centre Publications

           English

  • Developing Countries Submissions @ Poznan Climate Change Conference (COP 14)
  • South Centre calls for Revamping the Global Financial Architecture
  • African Countries and the EPAs: Do Agriculture Safeguards Afford Adequate Protection?
  • Controversial Points in the Discussion on Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM) in the Doha Round
  • Intellectual Property Quarterly Update - 3rd Quarter 2008
  • Financing the Global Climate Change Response: Suggestions for a Climate Change Fund (CCF)
  • Financial Crisis: Collapse of an ideology
  • Developing Country Perspectives on the Role of the Development Cooperation Forum: Building Strategic Approaches to Enhancing Multilateral Development Cooperation


           French

  • Editorial: Pourquoi la proposition de l'Equateur serait-elle une meilleure réponse à la crise financière que la déclaration du G20?
  • Editorial: L'obscurantisme néolibéral et sa descendance au destin malheureux
  • Le Centre Sud demande que l'architecture financière mondiale soit rénovée
  • L'effondrement d'une idéologie
  • Fiche Technique 7: l'accès au marché des marchandises dans les accords de partenariat économique (APE)
  • Food and Energy Crisis: Time to Rethink Development Policy
     
    Spanish
  • Editorial: El oscurantismo neoliberal y su descendencia fallida
  • El Centro del Sur llama a una reforma de la arquitectura financiera internacional
  • Financiar la respuesta mundial al cambio climático: Sugerencias para un Fondo especial para el cambio climático
  • El colapso de una ideología
  • Food and Energy Crisis: Time to Rethink Development Policy
  • Fiche Technique 7: l'accès au marché des marchandises dans les accords de partenariat économique (APE)

4. Upcoming South Centre Events

  • South Centre FFD Doha 2008 Side-Event: Challenges and Opportunities Beyond Doha - Doha, 30 Nov. 2008
  • South Centre @ BaKaFORUM 2009 - Basel, 30 Jan. 2009 

5. South Centre Member Countries News

  • Panama makes its financial contribution. Nov 2008
  • Omar Hilale appointed as the new Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations Office at Geneva
  • Jamaica appoints Peter C. Black as the new Permanent Representative to the UN Office at Geneva
  • Tanzania makes its financial contribution to the South Centre. Oct. 2008 

6. Watch the South Centre Digital TV

  • Interview with Mr. Mobasherur Rahman, Director General of the Bangladesh Post Office. 24th Universal Postal Union Congress Series
  • Comments on the Role of South Centre by Dr. Xuan Li, Coordinator, Innovation and Access to Knowledge Programme, South Centre. 24th Universal Postal Union Congress Series   

7. Join the Intellectual Network for the South (INSouth)

 

 

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