(AP) NEW DELHI — According to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his nation is "becoming the voice of the Global South," and that voice will be heard during the next Group of 20 conference taking place in New Delhi.
South Africa, which is now in charge of the BRICS group of countries—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—said its objective at the group's August meeting was to "advance the agenda of the Global South." Additionally, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida emphasized that the guest nations he had invited highlighted the significance of the Global South ahead of this May's summit of the Group of Seven affluent democracies in Hiroshima.
The Global South is a topic that appears to be in everyone's conversation these days, including the United Nations, the World Bank, and US President Joe Biden.But what is it exactly?
Contrary to what it would imply, it is not a geographical phrase. India, China, and every country in the northern part of Africa are examples of the many nations that make up the Global South that are located in the northern hemisphere. Despite being in the southern hemisphere, the Global South does not include Australia or New Zealand.
Most people refer to the so-called Brandt Line as the boundary; it is a squiggle over the globe that begins in the north of Mexico, crosses top-to-bottom through Africa and the Middle East, loops around India and China, and then descends to encompass the majority of East Asia while bypassing Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. Former German Chancellor Willy Brandt proposed the line in the 1980s as a graphic representation of the north-south split based on per-capita income GDP.
According to Happymon Jacob, founder of the Council for Strategic and Defense Research in New Delhi, "the Global South is a geographical, geopolitical, historical, and developmental concept, all at the same time, with exceptions."
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