The rise of
the South is radically reshaping the world of the 21st century, with developing
nations driving economic growth, lifting hundreds of millions of people from
poverty, and propelling billions more into a new global middle class, says the
United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) 2013 Human Development Report.
This
phenomenon goes well beyond the so-called BRICs, middle income countries often
represented by Brazil, Russia, India and China, the 2013 Report stresses. The
Report shows that more than 40 developing countries have made greater human
development gains in recent decades than would have been predicted. These
achievements, it says, are largely attributable to sustained investment in
education, health care and social programmes, and open engagement with an
increasingly interconnected world.
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