40 years is nothing: from the Buenos Aires Action Plan to the Second United Nations High Level Conference on South-South Cooperation
Abstract
Forty years after the adoption of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action (BAPA) on Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries (TCDC) by the United Nations General-Assembly (UNGA), the international community has been convened to meet at Argentina’s capital city, in March 2019, to debate on the new development context and discuss South-South Cooperation (SSC) and triangular cooperation roles within the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Development understanding, international cooperation practices —including SSC, and the global panorama have been substantially modified since BAPA’s adoption. This article analyzes these elements and the historical backgrounds of the 1978 BAPA adoption, and of the second High-Level Conference of the United Nations on SSC to be held in 2019.
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