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/ 27 January 2006
With Muslim extremists blamed for fomenting global unrest, leaders from Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan and Pakistan met at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to mull the Islamic world’s fractious relations with the West. The discussion ranged from terrorism and modernisation to the nuclear balance in the Middle East.
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/ 27 January 2006
Avian flu has the potential to develop into a global pandemic that would be as devastating as the Black Death of the 14th century, the World Economic Forum warned on Thursday in its assessment of the risks threatening stability and prosperity.
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/ 26 January 2006
Chinese central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan said on Thursday that a push by Chinese groups to acquire companies abroad was matched by a desire to attain international business standards. "Chinese companies are now looking more and more at global competition," Zhou told the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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/ 25 January 2006
The jobs of tomorrow are here today — there’s just going to be a need for many more of them, officials at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting predicted on Wednesday. United States Labour Secretary Elaine Chao said the US has forecast a demand for millions of nurses and health-care workers.
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/ 25 January 2006
Ministers from more than 25 of the world’s major trading powers will start trying again on Wednesday to break a deadlock in global trade talks. Major players at the 149-member World Trade Organisation (WTO) appear as far apart as ever on the vexing subject of farm trade, as well as market access for industrial goods.
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/ 28 January 2005
The world’s richest countries need to make a ”quantum leap forward” in helping Africa in 2005, Tony Blair said as he announced that Britain would spend £45-million on mosquito nets to prevent malaria. The prime minister said he was expecting to see a fundamental shift on aid, debt relief and trade in the next 12 months.
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/ 26 January 2005
Troubled by the limp dollar and facing calls to do more to curb poverty and climate change, more than 2 000 political and business leaders have convened on Wednesday in the Swiss resort of Davos to talk, network and ponder the world’s pressing problems at the World Economic Forum, a corporate schmoozer’s dream nestled in the Swiss Alps.
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/ 23 January 2004
The United States economy will keep growing and is just starting to add significant new jobs, Commerce Secretary Don Evans said on Friday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. His upbeat forecast got a swift rebuttal from top American trade union leader John Sweeney.
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/ 21 January 2004
Chief executive officers around the world are less worried about terrorism than about a range of other risks to their business prospects like tougher competition and currency fluctuations, according to a survey released in Davos.
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/ 27 January 2003
Pretoria is not convinced European Union sanctions against Zimbabwe will produce the desired effect, South African Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin said on Monday.
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/ 27 January 2003
An accord on the controversial issue of access to life-saving cheap medicines at the World Trade Organisation is ”fairly close”, the chief executive of US drug company Pfizer, Henry McKinnell, said on Monday.