Global slums are the other side of many global cities, especially in the global South.
"I really think that in choosing someone from the global south, there is important symbolism, but also, their life histories are very different" from previous popes, Allison said.
Although the problems of growth are vastly different in magnitude in the global South than in the global North, the benefits of international relationships and inter-university seminars, workshops and training programmes has been hugely successful and mutually so to boot.
The "megatrends" identified by the report include individual empowerment and transfer of power from the West to the global East and South.
The bank's South Asia unit has doubled its wealth under management in each of the past two years, said Vikram Malhotra, head of the South Asia global community at the U.K.-based bank.
Yes, China and India, which for years have been far less connected to the global capitalist system than South Korea and the others, have fared much better in this crisis.
The deadly logic of addiction -- the drive to acquire oil at all costs -- is experienced with particular ferocity in the oil-producing states of the equatorial region and global south.
La Nina may be the underlying cause of the drought in the South, but rising temperatures from global warming make that drought more severe.
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This tendril of land that projects from the Antarctic towards the tip of South America is warming much faster than the global average.
The map was drawn up by the World Resources Institute, South Dakota University and IUCN, for the Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration ahead of the launch of the United Nations International Year of Forests 2011.
One of the effects of ozone depletion is to strengthen the winds circling the south pole (see Southern bellwether), and global warming is expected to do something similar.
After its launch in South Africa, the global experiment will be available to interested schools all over the world.
Offer big incentives to make Brazil the South American headquarters for global businesses.
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Meanwhile Ipsos Markinor, a market-research firm, has published a poll taken in November, before the global economic storms had fully affected South Africa.
The Department of Science and Technology in South Africa generously donated IYC Global Experiment kits to the schools that attended the Big Splash as the schools lacked the equipment to conduct the Experiment.
In the second quarter, the South Korean company accounted for 32.6% of global smartphone shipments, up from 29% in the quarter ending in March, according to the research firm IDC.
It helps that DJ is the first South Korean president with a global perspective and grasp.
Customs revenues plummeted due to the global economic crisis and a drop in South African imports.
With the global economic downturn in late 2008, South Korean GDP growth slowed to 0.3% in 2009.
In the Swiss-based World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness survey, South Africa comes top in sub-Saharan Africa and 50th out of 142 in the world.
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"As the largest economy in the continent, South Africa is punching below its weight when in comes to global economic platforms like the G8, " Mr Davies told AFP news agency.
Lodhi liked the possibility of Asia: The middle class in South and East Asian economies accounted for 1.4% of the global population and 2.1% of global income in 2000.
The smaller South Asian nations cannot survive the global competition without belonging to a regional grouping.
Rejoice Mabudafhasi of the Ministry of Water and Environmental Affairs, South Africa, and Biliana Cicin-Sain, President of the Global Ocean Forum.
Interestingly, rainfall patterns in the Sahel region, an arid landscape just south of the Sahara Desert where Darfur Lake is located, mirror global temperature patterns.
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For the selection of a South American cardinal to fill the shoes of the fisherman is also evidence that the global dynamic between Catholics is less and less about East and West.
Fragile conditions in major economies have further led to a slowdown in Indian exports, exacerbating the turmoil in the South Asian economy which was expanding at a robust 9% pace just before the global financial crisis in 2008.
On 22 March the Global Water Experiment was launched in Cape Town, South Africa, with a big splash.
Reversing South Africa's position in the global and continental rankings is a top priority for the coach who is taking up his first job in African football.
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But the role of the ASA came under scrutiny when Semenya's coach quit, alleging that she had actually been tested in South Africa prior to competing on the global stage.
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