Meaning of Global South | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of Global South.
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2. A region predominantly composed of the developing countries of Africa, Latin America, and Asia excluding Japan and South Korea, regarded as half of a socioeconomic and political divide opposite to the Global North.

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Examples

“Where and what is the Global South? If you ask people on the street, many would probably not have the faintest idea. In everyday parlance and mass media, Global South has hardly become a household term. In academic and (global) policy circles, though, the term is used with much more gusto.”

“Countries from the global south, including Brazil, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo – mega-diverse countries home to the world’s three largest rainforests – wanted governments to agree to the creation of a new biodiversity fund as part of the Montreal pact to pay for new conservation targets.”

“A paragon from the Global South, as no one I know who lives there calls it, would be very 21st century, very au courant.”

“But the summit will also show the limits of what a heterogeneous “global south” can achieve.”

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