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New Report Finds Education, Women’s Entrepreneurship, Tourism and Trade Key to Africa’s Competitiveness • The Africa Competitiveness Report 2011, jointly produced by the African Development Bank, the World Bank and the World Economic Forum, takes stock of Africa’s competitiveness • The report finds that ...
Enabling Trade: Valuing Growth Opportunities
Enabling Trade: Valuing Growth Opportunities “Enabling Trade: Valuing Growth Opportunities” finds that reducing supply chain barriers can increase global GDP up to 6 times more than removing all import tariffs.  Such large increases in GDP would be associated with positive effects on unemployment, ...
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 ...
Stimulating Trade, Stemming Protectionism • Amadou Diallo • Kim Jong-Hoon • Jean-Pierre Lehmann • Akio Okawara • Suthad Setboonsarng • Michael Tay Moderated by • Andrew Stevens Friday 19 June Global trade tumbled with the onset of the global ...
Protecting Consumers in the Global Economy Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2009 Protecting Consumers in the Global Economy Dalian, People’s Republic of China 10-12 September Not all opposition to global trade can be attributed to protectionism, as consumers’ concern over imports has ...
Recalibrating Global Demand Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2009 Recalibrating Global Demand Dalian, People’s Republic of China 10-12 September 2009 Few prognosticators predicted the sub-prime collapse, and even fewer economists forecasted that global demand would fall ...
The Rise of Economic Nationalism Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2009 The Rise of Economic Nationalism Dalian, People’s Republic of China 10-12 September The World Trade Organization predicts that global exports will drop by 12% in 2009, leading to concerns that new forms ...
Trade and Climate Change: Economic Imperative or Green Imperialism? Trade and Climate Change: Economic Imperative or Green Imperialism?  Trade and climate policies have become increasingly entwined as countries grapple with the challenge of integrating economic interests with the management of climate change. What ...
Rebuilding Long-term Economic Growth Rebuilding Long-term Economic Growth The financial crisis exposed the short-term orientation of today's capital markets but has yet to trigger longer term thinking by government and business. With the global economic recovery in sight, what ...
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. ...
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