South fights for ‘policy space’

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development meeting this week in Sao Paulo will discuss the problems and prospects that developing countries face in a rapidly globalising world. Developing countries say their freedom to have policies promoting development is being curbed by too many global rules that work against them. 

THIS year’s most important United Nations conference opens today in Sao Paulo to discuss the development prospects and problems of developing countries in a rapidly globalising world.