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New Partnerships, New Opportunities   • Soud Ba'alawy  • Rob Davies  • Gao Zhikai  • Jubril Adewale Tinubu Moderated by • Charlie Corbett   Wednesday 10 June 15.30-16.30 The new economic environment has opened up opportunities to forge new types of relationships between ...
Global Redesign Series: The Cost of Conflict • Joaquim Alberto Chissano • Lord Malloch-Brown • Luis Moreno-Ocampo • Maite E. Nkoana-Mashabane • George Gachara Moderated by • Peter Guest   Thursday 11 June Peter Guest , Editor, This is Africa, Financial ...
Why Green Thinking Is Smart Thinking • Santiago Cortés  • Ricarda McFalls  • Jayendra Naidoo • Virgílio Maurício Viana Moderated by • Dominic Waughray   Friday 12 June 10.30-11.30 Green thinking should not be narrowed to the issue of lower carbon usage to reduce ...
Chronic Diseases: A Global Challenge Chronic Diseases: A Global Challenge Sixty percent of all deaths are caused by chronic diseases such as heart disease, strokes and diabetes. And it is not just a rich-country phenomenon. Some 80% of cases of chronic disease are occurring in ...
Walking the Green Talk Walking the Green Talk Patricia Glyn walked 2,200 kilometres from Durban in South Africa to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe in the footsteps of her ancestors. Come listen to a thrilling, amusing, heart-warming, emotional and tragic story from an ...
Rethinking Africa's Growth Strategy Rethinking Africa's Growth Strategy Africa's growth strategy is developing new plot lines as the International Monetary Fund expects growth in sub-Saharan Africa to be 1% above the global average; trade with China now tops US$ 100 billion a year. ...
IdeasLab with INSEAD IdeasLab with INSEAD INSEAD in the IdeasLab discussed the latest insights and perspectives on CEO performance and the paradox of control. Key Points • The moral compass of leadership is changing; control must be loosened without losing ...
Africa's Destabilizing Factors   Economic and social development is best fostered in an environment with peace, security and clear rule of law. However, many parts of Africa continue to be affected by destabilizing elements from coastal pirates, to ethnic violence, to the ...
Purse Strings and Democracy Purse Strings and Democracy 25.01.2006 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2006 An African politician justifies spending scarce public funds on a personal jet as"capacity building" to beg for more aid. Another shuns the conditional ...
Global Challenges Global Challenges World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2007  Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, called for strengthened multilateral institutions and instruments, as well as action on a strengthened "values-based international ...
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