South-South and North-South Cooperation: The New Dynamics of the Global Economy

One of the first parallel sessions of the conference attracted 20 participants to hear three speakers presenting an ongoing joint research project between UN-CRIS and UN-WIDER. The session, entitled ‘South-South Integration in a North-South Context’ explored the development impacts of South-South trade agreements compared to the alternative, and often more favoured North-South Integration.

South-South trade agreements continue to grow in popularity despite the argument that they do not provide the same socio-economic benefits as North-South agreements (of 61 Regional Arrangements studied by the project, 40 are south-south). In reality, there is little evidence to support this view. Read more of this post