South Centre Statement on UNCTAD XVI Conference, 23 October 2025
South Centre Statement on UNCTAD XVI Conference “Shaping the Future: Driving Economic Transformation for Equitable, Inclusive and Sustainable Development”
23 October 2025, Geneva, Switzerland
At UNCTAD XVI, the South Centre reaffirmed that an equitable and effective multilateral system must reflect the right of developing countries to participate in and shape the rules of global economic governance, while preserving their policy space and data sovereignty. The success of the XVI Conference will be judged by the extent to which its outcome reaffirms the organisation’s development mission and its unique role in shaping a fairer global economic order.
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This article was tagged: Data Governance, Data Sovereignty, Development, Digital Transformation, Global Economic Governance, Global Economic Order, Global South, International Trade, Multilateral System, Multilateralism, Structural Transformation, Trade for Development, UNCTAD XVI, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
