Tag: World Economic Forum

• Wednesday, January 25th 2012 - 21:07 UTC

  Merkel asks business leaders to give policy makers “needed space” to tackle Euro crisis

  

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel appealed to business leaders at the World Economic Forum to give policy makers the space they need to tackle the debt crisis, pledging that Europe will pull together and restore confidence.

• Wednesday, January 25th 2012 - 19:37 UTC

  FAO underlines importance of agriculture to address world’s environmental challenge

  

  Agriculture is part of the solution to the world's environmental challenge and must play a key role at next June's Rio summit on sustainable development, the Brazilian head of the UN food agency said this week.

• Thursday, December 15th 2011 - 00:45 UTC

  Hong Kong world’s most developed financial market; Brazil in Latam

  

  Hong Kong became the world’s most developed financial market, overtaking the US and the UK for the first time, according to the Financial Development Report 2011 published by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Wednesday.

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 18:58 UTC

  Chile and Uruguay less corrupt in Latam; other Mercosur members not so clean

  

  Chile and Uruguay are the least corrupt countries in Latinamerica, while Paraguay and Venezuela are at the other extreme, according to the latest ‘Corruption Perceptions’ Index’ from Transparency International released this week.

• Monday, April 25th 2011 - 07:16 UTC

  Former British PM Brown advisor to the World Economic Forum

  

  Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been appointed as an unpaid advisor to the World Economic Forum. He is to be the chairman of a new policy and initiatives co-ordination board.

• Tuesday, April 12th 2011 - 21:26 UTC

  IMF calls on the US to tackle the deficit and help financial markets stability

  

  There is an urgent need for the United States to tackle the deficit in the government's finances since the size of the exposure risks creating instability in the financial markets, according to the International Monetary Fund. However the IMF says the global economic recovery is gaining strength.

• Wednesday, January 26th 2011 - 17:17 UTC

  Davos Economic Forum Gets Underway, Adjusting to “New Reality”

  

  Adjusting to the “new reality,” was top of the agenda at the World Economic Forum on Tuesday. Some 2,500 business leaders, politicians and social activists are looking forward, while trying to anticipate unexpected shocks, it was reported.