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Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2009
Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2009 Reviving economic growth is the most important priority for policy-makers and business leaders in 2009. Efforts that prevented a collapse of the international financial system failed however to avert a global collapse of demand for goods and services. A ...
More with Less: Scaling Sustainable Consumption and Resource Efficiency
More with Less: Scaling Sustainable Consumption and Resource Efficiency This report focuses on how consumption can be made more sustainable through decoupling growth from environmental impact at the scale and speed required. It builds on four years of engagement by the World ...
Financial Development
Financial Development The importance of financial systems to economic growth has become even more pronounced in recent years; yet, there is still surprisingly little agreement about how to define and measure their development. To ...
India’s New Manufacturing Policy Vital to Create Jobs and Maintain Growth New manufacturing policy aims to create 100 million jobs and claim 25% of GDP by 2022 India’s growth will falter without large-scale job creation – the service industry alone cannot deliver ...
China as a Global Player  Thirty years ago China launched economic reforms that would transform the country and its place in the world. At a speed no one could have predicted even a decade ago, the nation has re-emerged as a global player on multiple fronts. Consider China's ...
Finalists of the 2008 Social Entrepreneur Award for South Africa Announced at the World Economic Forum on Africa First gathering of 150 Social Entrepreneurs and Resource Providers in Africa Cape Town, 4 June 2008: Five finalists for the Social Entrepreneur Award for South Africa 2008 were ...
Invoking Obama, young parliamentarians call for change in India Speaking at the World Economic Forum’s 24th India Economic Summit, held in partnership with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), India’s young political leaders call for change ...
India set to be a manufacturing superpower The country aspires to manufacturing superpower status but a key impediment to achieving this is a lack of entrepreneurship and leadership. Not only is India an IT superpower but it ...
Security under control, says India's Home Minister as India Summit ends India is no more vulnerable than other countries to terrorism and investors should not be concerned, the country's Government is at pains to point out India’s security challenges ...
Rising Protectionism and Inflation Are Key Threats to Asia Threat of protectionism is on the rise and will hurt Asia and rest of the world The prevailing global economic slowdown is fuelling the rise of protectionism in Western economies, ...
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