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The world is going through multiple crises, but each crisis can also contain an opportunity. The key to identifying those opportunities is to look at different time frames. Can we find ways to take advantage of the urgent crises we face today and transform them into opportunities to address longer-term challenges? The just-published Global Risk […]
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These are the greatest risks facing the world
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The 2020s are off to a disruptive start. From the COVID-19 until the war in Europe, as explained by the Global Risks Report 2023 of the World Economic Forumhave given way to a “new series of food and energy crises, problems that decades of progress have tried to solve”. As a result, this year’s report […]
World elites meet in Davos to discuss Ukraine, the climate and the future of the Amazon
The world’s political and economic elites will meet next week in Davos under the motto “cooperating in a fragmented world”, in an edition where, among other things, the consequences of the war in Ukraine, the climate crisis and the future of the Amazon will be addressed. This year’s meeting, organized by the World Economic Forum […]
Short-term measures can ruin the energy transition
The World Economic Forum warned today about the negative consequences that trying to face the current energy crisis with short-term measures would have and that could end up ruining the efforts in favor of an energy transition. Only this last option, based on accelerating a low carbon economy, can guarantee the energy security and sustainability […]
Economic Forum says the world needs 37% more doctors and teachers
A report from World Economic Forum locates to Brazil Y Spain as the second and third country with the largest deficit of employees in the social field, which includes the health, childcare and education sectors, in a list that leads South Africa. The report, published days before the start of the Davos Forum, highlights that […]
Japan and its progress in making digital salary payments
The government of Japan is preparing a system for the Business of this country make payments of wages digitally by spring 2023. The objective is that these salaries are deposited through smartphone payment applications without going through the bank accounts of the workers. The innovative measure aims to resolve the “complex problems” facing foreign workers […]
Cryptocurrency Lobby Appoints World Economic Forum Executive as Chief
The Crypto Council for Innovation (CCI), an American lobby group backed by the companies Coinbase and Block, announced that it has appointed as CEO an executive from the World Economic Forum (WEF, for its acronym in English) specialized in “blockchain”. Sheila Warren, who led the development and management of the Center for the Fourth Industrial […]
Davos Forum will hold a face-to-face meeting from May 22 to 26
Updated on 01/21/2022 02:35 pm The World Economic Forum (WEF) convened a face-to-face meeting from May 22 to 26 in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began. COVID-19, organizers reported. “After all the virtual meetings held in the last two years, political, business and civil society leaders […]
World Economic Forum postponed to summer to be held at its headquarters in Davos
Updated on 12/22/2021 11:27 am The 2022 edition of the World Economic Forum (WEF), postponed to the beginning of the boreal summer due to the omicron variant of COVID-19, will be held at its headquarters in Davos, its founder Klaus Schwab said in an interview with a Swiss newspaper . The WEF announced on Monday […]
World Economic Forum postpones January meeting due to omicron variant
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that the World Economic Forum will postpone until June 2022 its Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, scheduled for January, due to the uncertainty about the outbreak of the omicron variant and “considering the evolution of the pandemic.” Through its social networks, the Foreign Ministry of Peru reported that the […]