World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Rankings - 2000 United States Singapore Luxembourg Netherlands Ireland World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Rankings - 2009 Switzerland United States Singapore Sweden Denmark .... 25. Ireland What happened in the interim? Export growth stalled, and our competitiveness declined as we succumbed to the lure of cheap credit and expensive property. Do you...
• Dominique Strauss-Kahn says it is too early to abandon stimulus measures • IMF managing director softens his opposition to the Tobin tax at the CBI annual conference The head of the International Monetary Fund has warned that the global economy is still in a "highly fragile" state following the financial crisis, and could face further turmoil in the months ahead. Dominique Strauss-Kahn,...
The future of journalism council at the World Economic Forum councils meeting in Dubai came up with a compelling statement on how networked journalism is the way forward for the global news media. In previous posts I outlined the debate and the final statement of the group. This post outlines the concrete proposal that the [...]
This was the final statement from the Future of Journalism Council at the World Economic Forum councils meeting in Dubai. It is a collective statement by a dozen different journalists from around the world, so I think the degree of consensus is remarkable. The statement is designed to be published to world leaders as part of WEF at Davos [...]
If you spend two days in a seminar with 12 journalists from around the world (just one American, one Brit) you are bound to come out with a more global sense of the future of journalism. Add to that the 0ther 600 delegates at the World Economic Forum in Dubai who are talking about everything [...]
This weekend Dubai is hosting a plenary session for the World Economic Forum that sculpts the agenda for the famous Davos event. There has also been the announcement of a new governor for the Dubai International Financial Centre who is charged with developing this landmark project over the next five years. Ahmad Humaid Al Tayer [...]
On Tuesday, Transparency International (TI) released their 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), revealing that many sub-Saharan African countries remain among the most corrupt world-wide. The annually-released index ranks how corrupt governments are perceived to be, according to international institutions such as the World Economic Forum, the World Bank and the African Development Bank. The 2009...
The Dubai economy is growing at a five percent rate, less than in previous years but ahead of the most cautious forecasts, the head of a government economic committee said on Friday. "Yes we are affected by what is going in the world but we are confident in the stability of the city," Mohammad Alabbar, also chairman of construction giant Emaar, told a World Economic Forum conference in the...
News of increasing wealth of country's richest sparks debate about polarisation of society In India, the rich just got richer. Despite one of the worst global recessions in history, the number of billionaires in the subcontinent has almost doubled since last year. Figures show that there are now 52 billionaires in India, compared with 27 last year. Over the course of the year, the stock market has...