Here in Busan, at the High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, there is strong momentum around South-South Cooperation and Knowledge Exchange. The main thematic session on South-South drew a crowd of close to 500 people. In the intense negotiations over the Busan Outcome Document, the South-South agenda is front and center. Why?

 

Let me give an example.

 

It is 2009. We are in the midst of the financial crisis, and Nepal realizes that its banks are overexposed.…

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The Bogotá Statement - Towards Effective and Inclusive Development Partnerships - was posted earlier today on the site of the High-Level Event on South-South Cooperation, which will take place on March 24-25, 2010.

For a copy of the statement, click…

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At the Global South-South Expo, organized by the UN in Washington DC on December 14-17, 2009, the World Bank Group called for a global platform to systematically facilitate south-south exhanges and coooperation.



According to the World Bank Group, the goal of the development community should be to have the ability to systematically connect practitioners to each other, just-in-time and anytime, across countries and regions, so that they can collaborate to identify, share, adapt and… Continue

October 4, 2009—India announced it will join a growing number of countries contributing to a World Bank financing facility that provides quick, just-in-time funding for developing countries to share their knowledge and expertise.



Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said India could both contribute its own development know-how and learn from the experiences of other countries. “I believe that the people of the South have much to learn from the experience of each other,” he told a… Continue