Topic: Davos
LONDON (Reuters) - The risk that parlous government finances will trigger sovereign debt defaults remains one of the biggest threats facing the world in 2011, according to the World Economic Forum.Punishing levels of public debt built up to counter the financial crisis ...
The World Economic Forum is an international non-profit organization based in Geneva, Switzerland . The World Economic Forum's annual meeting got underway on January 28 , 2009 . Unions condemn delegates on crisis (January 30, 2009) During a debate on January 29, ...
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Last year the mood at the World Economic Forum at Davos was heavily tinted by a desire to understand the financial meltdown. As soon as Nicolas Sarkozy gave the opening address--the first Davos keynote ever given by a French president--it was apparent ...
The following is a transcript of " Two years ago, coming away from the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, I said that how the world looked depended a lot on if you were looking east or west. There was ...
As the single-track train winds its way down the snow-covered valley from what claims to be the highest city in Europe, there is a point where carriage-loads of meeting participants look down on the tony ski resort of Klosters, a favorite of ...
Trust in business has increased over the past year, according to the Edelman Trust Barometer, an annual survey produced for the Davos meeting by the Edelman public relations firm. Those surveyed-nearly 5,000 opinion formers in 22 countries-feared that with the passing of ...
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Global business leaders warned Western governments Wednesday that a populist crackdown on the financial industry could crimp a fragile recovery from the worst recession since the 1930s.The worried response to U.S. President Barack Obama's plans to curb big ...
The 40th anniversary of the Davos Annual Meeting is a defining moment for world leaders as they meet under the theme "Improve the State of the World: Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild". Over 2,500 leaders from over 90 countries representing business, government and civil ...
The current economic crisis hasn't done much for trust in business, or at least among some of its future customers and employees. A poll of 130,000 Facebook users in 10 countries, 80% of them under 30, conducted ahead of the World Economic ...