22 November 2012: The UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has published the 12th issue of its quarterly newsletter “Making It: Industry for Development.” The issue focuses on South-South cooperation, with seven experts examining the impact of the rise of the emerging economies on South-South cooperation.

Featured articles address the “barefoot” solar engineers in western India and “Pathways of South-South cooperation,” examining the ups and downs of South-South cooperation, as well as the factors that have contributed to it resurgence in recent years. In a keynote feature, experts examine the impact of the rise of the emerging economies on South-South coopeartion, particularly in regard to the often made assumption that economic interactions between countries of the South are more beneficial than those between the North and the South. Yiping Zhou outlines UN initiatives to harness the South’s resources for development; Devaki Jain addresses the feminists of the South and a new framework for reconstructing the very basis of economic reasoning; and Christophe Yvetot argues in favor of innovative collaborative models. The feature also includes an interview with Fernando Pimentel, Minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Brazil, and a profile of China’s Broad Group.

Two policy briefs focus on connecting development knowledge, and on cooperating with China in Africa. In an endpiece, Stephen Browne surveys the aftermath of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20) for the future of sustainable industrial development. [Publication: Making It: Industry for Development (#12)]