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'Global South must push back' for multilateral world order: Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation says countries of the so-called Global South, home to 85 percent of the world’s population, must claim a greater role in shaping the future of the planet.
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he Rockefeller Foundation says countries of the so-called Global South must claim a greater role in shaping the future of the planet.
The term Global South has been used by some as a war cry to unite developing countries and push back against the dominance of the Group of Seven (G7) biggest economies.
“Gone are the times when the North would come and tell us: ‘Hey, this is how you need to be doing things’,” Deepali Khanna, vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Asia office, told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday, noting that countries should respect and listen to each other.
Khanna said every country knew what its people wanted and needed, meaning getting told what to do could end up causing conflicting interests. However, poorer countries were stuck in a conundrum, since they needed funding from their richer counterparts.
This, Khanna argued, put richer countries in a stronger bargaining position, which, in most cases, resulted in them making decisions for poorer ones.
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“We want us to be all coming together as equitable partners, right? Where this respect, understanding and decisions that are important for us are made by us, not by other parties,” declared Khanna.
