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• Gender Inequality Worst in South Asia

  
  Haq's Musings — Authority: 467
  Gender gaps are among the widest in South Asia. Pakistan is ranked at 132, third from the bottom on a list of 134 nations compiled by the World Economic Forum for 2009. Only Chad and Yemen rank worse than Pakistan. This is not a surprise considering one of the lowest female literacy in Pakistan. Pakistans gender ...
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• Trade pact a road to $1-trillion Gulf market for India: Bahrain

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) The free trade agreement that India and Gulf countries hope to sign will give Indian firms greater access to the $1-trillion market in the Middle East, apart from a cost-competitive route to western economies like the US, a senior executive of Bahrain’s Economic Development Board has ...
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• India may ‘wind down’ fiscal stimulus next year, says PM (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday said the measures taken by his government helped India brave the financial crisis better than most countries, but it may “wind down” by next year the fiscal stimulus that was launched last December.“I am happy to say that India has been able to face ...
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• ‘Bahrain can become India’s conduit to Gulf’ (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) Bahrain can be the conduit for channelling the synergies of India and the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the head of Bahrain’s Economic Development Board said here Sunday.“Like Bahrain, the gateway to the growing market of the Gulf, India is one of the most strategically located ...
  2 days ago

• India Economic Summit - Baba N. Kalyani

  
  Forumblog.org - The World Economic Forum Blog — Authority: 117
  Baba N. Kalyani, Chairman and Managing Director of Bharat Forge, India, discusses the upcoming India Economic Summit 2009 , which takes place in New Delhi from 8-10 November 2009.
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• Schwab Foundation announces Indias Social Entrepreneurs of the Year

  
  Forumblog.org - The World Economic Forum Blog — Authority: 117
  The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship , in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has selected three social enterprises with significant impact in India as winners of the India Social Entrepreneurs Award for 2009: Rajendra Joshi, Managing Trustee, Saath ; Brij Kothari, ...
  4 days ago

• Indias Key Economic Strengths and Weaknesses in the Spotlight

  
  Forumblog.org - The World Economic Forum Blog — Authority: 117
  The Forums The India Competitiveness Review 2009 was presented in the lead-up to the India Economic Summit in New Delhi on 8-10 November. The study analyses India’s performance in an international context. It makes comparisons with a number of countries, including the People’s Republic of China, Indonesia, the ...
  5 days ago

• India Economic Summit - Carlos Ghosn

  
  Forumblog.org - The World Economic Forum Blog — Authority: 117
  Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Renault-Nissan, reflects about the challenges for India ahead of the India Economic Summit , which takes place in New Delhi, India from 8-10 November 2009.
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• Global Treaty on Climate Change 2009

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 133
  Global Treaty on Climate Change I ‘Hopenhagen’ BBC Green Room IPS Confronting Climate Change Financial Times Dossier Brilliant Greenpeace spoof of IHT Climate Change Science Compendium 2009 Climate change on Wednesday-night.com     Talks focus on climate document (Al Jazeera) Leaders ...
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• Programme of the India Economic Summit 2009

  
  Forumblog.org - The World Economic Forum Blog — Authority: 117
  Around 800 participants are expected to attend the India Economic Summit , held in New Delhi from 8-10 November. Under the theme, "India’s Next Generation of Growth", the World Economic Forum celebrates 25 years of collaboration and active engagement in India. Key sessions listed below will be streamed live on ...
  1 week ago

• Owning water

  
  The Toynbee convector — Authority: 127
  After the Junior High School (see Judith Weingarten’s comment) emoting of Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s Home, I saw another film in Kuwait last week. It was called (rather weakly) Blue Gold and subtitled The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World’s Water (US, 2008). Here the emotion was about the ownership of ...
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• Entrepreneur for the World

  
  The Global Small Business Blog — Authority: 126
  The World Entrepreneurship Forum’s “Entrepreneur for the World” Award, Politician category , has been exceptionally granted during a conference held on October 20, 2009 hosted by EMLYON Business School (Lyon, France). And the winner is Mary Robinson! From the press release: Mrs Robinsons passion and ...
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• Iceland tops Forums Global Gender Gap Report 2009

  
  Forumblog.org - The World Economic Forum Blog — Authority: 117
  Iceland has claimed the top spot of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2009 from Norway which slipped to third position behind Finland. South Africa and Lesotho made great strides in closing their gender gaps to enter the top 10 for the first time. The Philippines lost ground for the first time in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Paolo Richter selected as „Swiss Social Entrepreneur 2009“

  
  Forumblog.org - The World Economic Forum Blog — Authority: 117
  The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship selected Paolo Richter, founder of Gump- und Drahtesel as "Swiss Social Entrepreneur 2009". In this fourth edition, the Foundation together with its partners, The Boston Consulting Group , Die Mobiliar and the weekly Bilanz , honours organizations with ...
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• Can India become a superpower?

  
  Forumblog.org - The World Economic Forum Blog — Authority: 117
  Can India become a superpower? ( क्या भारत एक महाशक्ति बन सकता है ? ) Thats the question the World Economic Forum wants you to answer in the Davos Debates in India . The video discussion coincides with the the annual I ndia Economic Summit , held in New Delhi on ...
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• Leading experts to address key global challenges in Dubai

  
  Forumblog.org - The World Economic Forum Blog — Authority: 117
  For the second consecutive year, the World Economic Forum and the Government of Dubai will host the Summit on the Global Agenda from 20 to 22 November 2009. The Summit will bring together over 700 council members of the most innovative and relevant minds from over 90 countries – leaders from academia, business, ...
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• Global institutions and global governance, lessons learned and ways ahead

  
  Forumblog.org - The World Economic Forum Blog — Authority: 117
  The World Economic Forum held the first of three country hearings of the Global Redesign Initative . In partnership with the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs the Swiss seminar organized at the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva, focused on ‘Global Institutions and Global Governance, Lessons ...
  3 weeks ago

• Information and communication technologies essential to fight climate change

  
  Forumblog.org - The World Economic Forum Blog — Authority: 117
  The World Economic Forum’s white paper ICT for Enabling Transformation analyses how information and communication technologies (ICT) can serve as strategic enablers in the transformation of the global economy. Showcasing the transformative impact of ubiquitous connectivity, distributed computing and a highly ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dissection of Corporate Social Responsibility

  
  The Grey Chronicles — Authority: 425
  After the post on Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR], some readers emailed that I have failed to offer a definition in the discussion. Although I have implicitly stated that CSR definition is still debated to this day, thus defining it would only muddle the other issues. The purpose of the series of previous ...
  4 weeks ago

• Global Treaty on Climate Change 2009

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 133
  ‘Hopenhagen’ IPS Confronting Climate Change Financial Times Dossier Brilliant Greenpeace spoof of IHT Climate Change Science Compendium 2009 William Marsden: Climate of Distrust International co-operation appeared to have been swept away by a climate of distrust between rich and poor countries as ...
  4 weeks ago

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