Brasilia, 11 May 2012 – The capital of Brasil will host a high-level event on agriculture and development: the International Seminar on The Role of South-South Cooperation in Agricultural Development in Africa. For the first time, the event will bring together inBrasilia representatives from African countries, Europe andChina, as well as main partners and actors [...]
Brasilia, 20 April – Michelle Morais de Sá e Silva, Coordinator-General of International Cooperation at Brazil’s Secretariat for Human Rights, provided an insightful presentation on Brazil’s new perspective on Brazilian South to South Cooperation in Human Rights. South to South Cooperation has been defined as technical cooperation among countries of the South, aimed at the [...]
Brasilia, 5 April 2012 In the lead up to Rio+20, there is growing interest in exploring very practical ways to link the social, economic and environmental dimensions of inclusive and sustainable development. In a thought-provoking presentation, Socio Environmental Protection Floor: Ideas to be discussed in Rio+20 at the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth on [...]
Brasilia, 14 February 2012 - Ms. Sofia Sunden, a visiting research assistant at the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG), provided an insightful presentation about what may be the legacy of two upcoming mega sports events in Brazil: the FIFA World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016. Brazil has successfully weathered the backlash from the global [...]
Brasilia,13 February 2012-The next meeting of the LACEA/IDB/WB/UNDP Network on Inequality and Poverty (NIP) will be held at Columbia University in the City of New York on 20 April 2012. The NIP is an initiative that aims to advance the state of knowledge and expertise regarding the causes and consequences of poverty, inequality, and social [...]
Brasília, 3 February 2012 – IPC-IG was founded in 2004 as a collaboration between the United Nations Development Programme and the Government of Brazil. The partnership between an emerging global player and the United Nations for the establishment of IPC-IG as a forum with a global agenda represents Brazil’s commitment to the challenges facing the developing world in guaranteeing opportunities for equal [...]
Poverty summit gets experts thinking 21 January 2011 – The inaugural Global Poverty Summit has given experts in global poverty reduction a platform to deliberate on ways in which poverty can be alleviated throughout the world. The summit was held at Turbine Hall in Newtown, Johannesburg, from 17 -19 January 2011 and is the brainchild [...]
Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro, October 25, 2010 – The 65th anniversary of the United Nations in Brazil will be celebrated with a photographic exhibition which tells the story of cooperation between the country and the UN. The exhibition opens on Monday (day 25/10) at the Ministry of External Relations, in Brasilia, and will be [...]
Rosário (Argentina), 20/10/2010 South-South Cooperation Must Fill in the Blanks In an interview, Argentinean scholar sees the bonds in the southern hemisphere as an alternative to the North-South collaboration, which is diminishing, especially in Latin America. From PrimaPagina Cooperation among the southern countries has become a necessary tool for filling the blanks left by the north-south [...]
Building on its extensive applied policy research in social protection, support to the Brazil-Africa Cooperation Programme on Social Protection and, more recently, its hosting of IBSA Academic Forum, the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Gowth (IPC-IG) is organising a policy dialogue and learning event on the intersections between the social protection and inclusive growth agendas.
