Topic: World Economic Forum

Hong Kong has overtaken the United States and Britain to rank top in a World Economic Forum survey on countries' financial health published on Tuesday.Strong scores in non-banking financial services such as initial public offering (IPO) activity and insurance helped lift Hong ...

Former prime minister Gordon Brown has been appointed unpaid chairman of a new policy group at the World Economic Forum, the organisation announced on Friday.The WEF, which organises the annual meeting of global business and political elites in Davos, said Brown had ...

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, ...

Demonstrators in France clashed with police on January 29, 2009, during a strike triggered by the global financial crisis. A man was evacuated after a car crash provoked by rioters in Tanjombato, Madagascar, on January 28. BEING HEARD Premier Wen Jiabao delivers ...

African countries, bruised by the global financial crisis, must restructure their economies and boost trade among themselves to ride out economic storms, a top economist said Wednesday.Improving infrastructure, governance, financial institutions as well as adopting new technologies can insure African economies against ...

Last year, during the depths of the recession, some participants at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, pondered whether Lehman Bros. Diane Hessan, CEO of Watertown, Mass.-based Communispace, which builds and hosts online communities for large corporations, says that over the ...

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 ...

The banking industry is warning that efforts by the White House to impose a series of new regulations could backfire by undermining the economy at a time when it is still particularly vulnerable. A report in London's Evening Standard newspaper notes that ...

Obama moved too soon in call for big bank regulationsBillionaire financier George Soros said Wednesday that President Barack Obama's call for tough regulations on big banks is too soon because the economy is not " "Soros said that imposing new taxes on ...