Global South

Subject : IR

Context:

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar while assuming the presidency of the G20 group of countries for 2022 to 2023 said that the country would be the “voice of the Global South”

What is Global South:

The Global South is a term often used to identify the regions of Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania.
The term “Global South” was first coined by a social activist Carl Oglesby in 1969.
It is an analogous term to “Third World” and “Periphery” that denote regions outside Europe and North America, mostly low-income and often politically or culturally marginalized countries.
Countries of the Global South have been described as newly industrialized or in the process of industrializing, and are frequently current or former subjects of colonialism.
As such, the term does not refer to geographical south; for example, most of the Global South is geographically within the Northern Hemisphere.