South-South Cooperation : Workshop for Case Writers was held consecutively with the Workshop on Triangular Cooperation: Toward horizontal Partnerships. But How?,  February 28 – March 1 2011, in Bali, Indonesia.

The Workshop was attended by academia from Indonesia,…

Over the last months, the Task Team on South-South cooperation (TT-SSC) has become even more active in breaking the ground for South-South and triangular knowledge exchange as a strong tool for development cooperation and horizontal partnerships.

In November last year, the opportunity became even clearer when the G20 issued a mandate for the TT-SSC and UNDP to recommend how knowledge sharing activity can be scaled…

Co-dependency among the unemployed constitutes an economic burden to the employed. The current dependency rate in developing nation is about 84%,this has the effect of depressing savings and consequently,investments. Without active investment from the working populace the economy will not grow well enough so as to absorb the unemployed.…

Workshop

Organiser:

German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and FRIDE, Madrid

22.03.2011

Location: Brussels, Résidence Palace

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This is a reprint from UN Dispatch, that I thought was relevant to South-South cooperation.

El Centro de Estudios de Cooperación al Desarrollo (CECOD) tiene el placer de informarle que se encuentra abierto el plazo de presentación de comunicaciones para el III Congreso Internacional de Fortalecimiento Institucional y Desarrollo.

El objetivo principal de este Congreso es analizar de qué forma se puede profundizar en un exitoso fortalecimiento institucional para promover el desarrollo como reto ineludible para los actores de la cooperación. Se…

LAC academia workshop / Taller con academia de ALyC – Some takeaways / Algunas conclusiones

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We have achieved important goals surrounding the analytical work of the Task Team on South-South cooperation (TT-SSC) in the case studies which will inform the High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan. A key priority for the TT-SSC is that Southern universities and research…

Madrid, 23 de febrero de 2011

http://foroaod.org/2011/02/23/avances-en-la-eficacia-la-calidad-y-la-transparencia-de-la-cooperacion-de-brasil…

Gathered in Seoul, on 30 November and 1 December 2010, a diverse group of around 160 participants from a wide range of institutions, among them DAC donors, partner countries, new development partners and think tanks, shared views on how the global aid architecture might evolve towards deeper and broader global…

Brazilian International Cooperation 2005-2009

Bridget lost both parents to HIV. She's an orphan. She grew up in a part of Kenya with no access to clean water. Her community struggled with a lack of food. Add it all together and she shouldn't have been

standing there... the day we passed by.

This wasn't a planned show and tell...

But a few years ago, something started that would forever change…

"In 2011 there is a chance that we will get that much closer to those pre-crisis trend growth rates," said Razia Khan, head of African research for Standard Chartered Bank.

"We were looking at 6% to 7% growth rate in a number of frontier market economies -- that is the key expectation," she said.

Issuing a positive outlook, Khan, whose job is to investigate…

Qualified candidates, please send CV and cover letter to Dean Thompson at dthompson@worldbank.org by Friday, January 28, 2011. Note - this position would be supported by a part time research assistant who would be based in Washington, D.C. However, the desired candidate need not be DC based.…