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The toll of structural adjustments on the global South and a case for accountability

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The toll of structural adjustments on the global South and a case for accountability

Jason Hickel, Salmaan Keshavjee, Maxine Burkett and Eugene T. Richardson, “Structural adjustment: damages, reparations and pathways to non-recurrence”, BMJ Global Health, March 2026. The 1970s were a good decade for the global South. Between 1960 and 1980, real per capita income grew across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Countries that had recently thrown off colonial…

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The Caribbean Is Aiming For The Top UN Post, And India May Play A Key Role

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The Caribbean Is Aiming For The Top UN Post, And India May Play A Key Role

New Delhi: The term of the current UN Secretary General has entered its final two years and names of candidates are emerging to see who will hold the top UN post next. With the emergence of the Global South, names of several candidates representing it are being heard at the top global body. There are…

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‘Huge Disappointment’ At Climate Hearings: Global South Representative

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‘Huge Disappointment’ At Climate Hearings: Global South Representative

The Hague, Netherlands: As marathon climate change hearings wrapped up Friday at the world’s top court, a representative for vulnerable nations voiced “huge disappointment” at the attitude of top polluters and urged judges to make them legally accountable for historic emissions. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has played host to history over the past…

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Jamaican PM On Why Global South Wants India To Represent It

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Jamaican PM On Why Global South Wants India To Represent It

New Delhi: India has become the voice of the Global South in a strategic and robust way, and the world saw that in the most-recent G20 Summit which happened in New Delhi, said Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness in an exclusive interview to NDTV. Prime Minister Holness, who is in India to strengthen ties between…

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PM Modi Proposes “Global Development Compact” At Global South Summit

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PM Modi Proposes “Global Development Compact” At Global South Summit

It will not burden the needy countries with debt in the name of development finance, PM said New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday proposed the creation of a human-centric “Global Development Compact” for the Global South to facilitate trade, sharing of technologies and concessional financing based on India’s growth journey, in a move…

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Xi Jinping Lauds India’s ‘Panchsheel’ Agreement, Jawaharlal Nehru’s Non-Alligned Movement

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Xi Jinping Lauds India’s ‘Panchsheel’ Agreement, Jawaharlal Nehru’s Non-Alligned Movement

(L-R) Amb. Raghavan, Zhou Enlai, PM Jawaharlal Nehru, Chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing, Oct 19, 1954 Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping highlighted the relevance of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, which gained traction with the Non-Aligned Movement, to end the present-day conflicts and sought to expand influence in the Global South amid its tussle…

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Xi Jinping Lauds India’s ‘Panchsheel’ Agreement, Jawaharlal Nehru’s Non-Alligned Movement

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Xi Jinping Lauds India’s ‘Panchsheel’ Agreement, Jawaharlal Nehru’s Non-Alligned Movement

(L-R) Amb. Raghavan, Zhou Enlai, PM Jawaharlal Nehru, Chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing, Oct 19, 1954 Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping highlighted the relevance of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, which gained traction with the Non-Aligned Movement, to end the present-day conflicts and sought to expand influence in the Global South amid its tussle…

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