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Across Globe, Empty Bellies Bring Rising Anger

Pooja — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:34:24 +0000

Hunger bashed in the front gate of Haiti’s presidential palace. Hunger poured onto the streets, burning tires and taking on soldiers and the police. Hunger sent the country’s prime minister packing. Haiti’s hunger, that burn in the belly...

Denmark has worlds best IT networked economy: WEF

Pooja — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:05:33 +0000

Denmark is better placed than any other country to benefit economically from new information and communications technology, according to a survey published on Wednesday by the World Economic Forum. In its annual global information technology...

West afraid about their increased dependence on emerging countries' SWFs

Arpita Mukherjee — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:48:04 +0000

Once upon a time the developing world heavily depended on the United States of America, the European countries, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank for loans and grants. The commercial dependence of these less developed nations on...

President Musharraf dismisses 'western intellectual arrogance'

Sunit — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:16:27 +0000

During an interview with CNN on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Pakistani premier Parvez Musharraf criticised the west of not understanding his country’s inherent problems. In an outright angry statement the controversial...

World Economic Forum: Switzerland promotes excellent transport and tourism infrastructure

Rajni — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:13:33 +0000

With the aim to measure the factors that make the development of the travel and tourism industry of individual countries attractive, World Economic Forum made a study (Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report). According to the study,...

World leaders committed to revive Doha round

Balendu — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:27:12 +0000

World Trade Organization Doha talks is not dead yet and there are strong signals given by the member countries to resume talks over the deal in the recently held meeting of leading commerce ministers in Davos. WTO Director General Pascal...

'India Everywhere' echoes again at World Economic Forum

Pratyush — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 07:10:47 +0000

In the Last year World Economic Forum Meeting there was a popular theme running throughout the summit as ‘India Everywhere’. The theme had great impact on the forum and still India may not be the theme this year but it is still...

Philippines 6th in gender equality!

Pooja — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:00:16 +0000

According to the World Economic Forum and the London Business School, Philippines grabs the sixth while New Zealand holds the seventh position in the Gender Gap Index. The result postulated has been based on: 1. financial partaking...

Global Competitiveness Index (GCI): India ranks better

Pratyush — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 03:37:30 +0000

India is becoming more competitive and ranking better than Brazil, Russian Federation, China and the neighboring countries. The World Economic Forum has released the Global Competitiveness Report 2006-2007 based on nine factors. Here is the...

The unique parable that is new India

Pratyush — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 05:42:52 +0000

India is fast developing country with some unique characteristics. Describing all this in a New York Times article, Pankaj Mishra details the real picture inside from India as well as outside from India. Let us see the story of New India India...