Global South
Global North and Global South are terms denoting a method of grouping countries based on their defining characteristics with regard to socioeconomics. The terms refer to developed and developing/least developed countries respectively. According to UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the Global South broadly comprises Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, and Oceania. Most of the Global South's countries are commonly identified as lacking in their standard of living, which includes having lower incomes, high levels of poverty, high population growth rates, inadequate housing, limited educational opportunities, and deficient health systems, among other issues. Additionally, these countries' cities are characterized by their poor infrastructure. Opposite to the Global South is the Global North, which the UNCTAD describes as broadly comprising Northern America and Europe, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand. Consequently the two groups do not correspond to the Northern Hemisphere or the Southern Hemisphere, as many of the Global South's countries are geographically located in the north and vice-versa.
Recent news mentioning Global South
- — New Delhi Marks UN Day for South-South Cooperation with Push to Scale Dryland Innovation Across the Global South
- — Real Time • Tide Watching | "Greater BRICS cooperation has become the leading echelon of the Global South" ---- Qian Feng and Xu Feibiao on 20 Years of BRICS Cooperation and the Next Decade
- — CGTN: How BRICS creates new opportunities for Global South development
- — CGTN: How BRICS creates new opportunities for Global South development
- — Terra Industries closes $52M seed round to build defense infrastructure for the Global South