UNDP: New South nations to bring change

BEIJING - The New South countries will play an important role in dealing with global problems, which the old North-South aid model can no longer solve, such as climate change, said a UN official, defining the New South as developing nations.

"The New South is much more what I'd call a handshake - not hand out. It's built on a partnership, rather on a donor-receiver relationship," said Ajay Chhibber, assistant secretary-general of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Noting that the North-South aid development model was built around top-down conditionality while South-South cooperation was built against the background of anti-colonialism, he said the New South focuses far more on the future.