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Showing posts with label WEF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WEF. Show all posts
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Meet these 7 Indian-born Nobel Prize winners (Rosamond Hutt, WEF)
From Kailash Satyarthi’s tireless work saving more than 80,000 children from slave labour to Rabindranath Tagore’s celebrated collection of poems Gitanjali, here’s a closer look at India’s Nobel Laureates*.
India needs to build more infrastructure fast. Here’s how (Nick Chism, WEF)
India is at an infrastructure crossroads. As demand for critical infrastructure systems has grown, the country’s tireless growth has raced ahead of its ability to deliver the necessary number of power plants, houses and waste collection facilities.
Tuesday, 4 October 2016
India has 7 unicorns – and they're just part of the country's growth story (Joe Myers, WEF)
Unicorn. Single-horned mythical creature. Or a private company valued at over US$1 billion.
Why India should sign a free-trade deal with itself (Samir Saran, WEF)
India is currently in the midst of two large but different endeavours.
Meet the man trying to build India's first $100 billion company (Quartz Marketing Staff, WEF)
Last month, Vijay Shekhar Sharma was at a New Delhi flea market with his wife when she decided to buy some dress material. The shopkeeper refused to accept Sharma’s credit card and insisted on being paid in cash. As he did not have cash on him, the shopkeeper offered the next best alternative: a Paytm account.
This is how India created its first 'smart village' (Utkarsh Amitabh, WEF)
In a way, Mahatma Gandhi conceptualized smart villages.
This is how India can build its own Silicon Valley (Kartik Hosanagar, WEF)
As I write this article, I am on my way back to the United States after a productive trip to India. During this visit, I had a chance to meet with some of the entrepreneurs shaping India’s start-up scene.
Inequality in India: what's the real story? (Nisha Agrawal, WEF)
India is suddenly in the news for all the wrong reasons. It is now hitting the headlines as one of the most unequal countries in the world, whether one measures inequality on the basis of income or wealth.
Your brain is a black box. 3 questions unravel the mystery (Ceri Parker, WEF)
We can build cities and robots, we can land a probe on a meteor and mull the colonization of Mars - but can we understand the kilogram or so of grey matter that sits between our ears?
Friday, 30 September 2016
5 ways to make global trade work for developing countries (Joakim Reiter, WEF)
In 2016, the growth of world trade will be at its slowest since the financial crisis of 2008, reports the World Trade Organization (WTO). Despite the increased protectionism that followed the crash, traditional trade barriers, such as tariffs, are at historical lows. Despite this, the flow of goods and services between countries remains one of the most important drivers of job creation and prosperity, and its sluggish pace is prompting anxiety.
Thursday, 29 September 2016
Africa could feed the world - if it overcomes these key challenges (Vivian Maduekeh, WEF)
Nigeria’s fledgling food export business was dealt a serious blow last year when the EU put a ban on beans imports - after over four times the acceptable amount of pesticide residue was detected. This comes after a previous ban on melon seeds for unacceptable levels of aflatoxin.
Wednesday, 28 September 2016
We’re less productive than in the past. Here are five potential explanations (Margareta Drzeniek-Hanouz, WEF)
In the decades after Robert Solow identified technology as a driver of growth, productivity grew hand in hand with innovation. But that’s no longer the case.
Europe's competitiveness is under threat - unless it tackles these obstacles to prosperity (Gaëlle Marti, Silja Baller, WEF)
Europe is pushing the competitiveness frontier in many ways, as illustrated by thelatest edition of the Global Competitiveness Report, the World Economic Forum’s annual assessment of the drivers of productivity and prosperity in 138 countries. Indeed, the Europe region - which includes the EU28, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, the Balkans, and Turkey - performs well above the global average in terms of competitiveness. This result is driven by the performance of several regional champions, most notably Switzerland, which leads the global rankings for the eighth consecutive year, as well as seven more European countries in the top 12: the Netherlands (4th), Germany (5th), Sweden (6th), the United Kingdom (7th), Finland (10th), Norway (11th), and Denmark (12th).
What makes South Asia the fastest growing region in the world? (Attilio Di Battista, WEF)
The Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017 shows that most countries in South Asia have improved their competitiveness over the course of the last year. This part of the world is experiencing positive economic momentum, and in 2016 is set to grow more quickly than China for the first time in more than 20 years, making it the fastest growing region in the world. Over the past decade, the sub-continent has focused on improving overall health and primary education levels and upgrading infrastructure, areas of particular importance for future diversification and preparedness given the resource-driven nature of the regional economies.
What will travel look like in 2030? (Tiffany Misrahi, WEF)
The travel and tourism industry has grown dramatically in the past decades, reaching nearly 1.2 billion international arrivals in 2015, compared to 25 million in 1950. That’s a growth of 4,700% – and this number is only expected to get bigger, reaching 1.8 billion international arrivals by 2030. You might be surprised, but it’s one of the fastest growing economic sectors in the world.
Lessons in corporate health - from ancient China (Andrew Chakhoyan, WEF)
In ancient China, it’s been said, people paid their doctors retainer fees for staying healthy. If a person got sick, the payments would be suspended until the doctor brought a patient back to health. To a Western healthcare consumer, this approach may seem unorthodox. Yet, each paradigm has its own merit; and, perhaps, the lessons from healthcare can be translated into the lessons of business strategy.
Wildlife crime: a $23 billion trade that’s destroying our planet (Wolfgang Lehmacher, WEF)
Between 2007 and 2013, rhino poaching in South Africa increased by 7,700%. Rhinos, which are poached for their horn, aren’t the only victims of this illicit trade, which is driving many species of wild animals and plants to extinction: elephants are poached for ivory, tigers and leopards for their skin, pangolins for meat and scales, and iguanas are caught for the pet trade. Rare timber is targeted for hardwood furniture.
Can Africa diffuse its demographic time-bomb? (Roberto Crotti, WEF)
In the past couple of years, growth in Africa has been affected by low commodity prices and economic slowdowns among trading partners. After seeing GDP increases of over 5% in 2014, regional growth is estimated to have been a more modest 3.4% in 2015, and it looks like it will be around 3% in 2016. Although that still makes the continent the world’s third-fastest growing region, this deceleration in economic activity is bad news for Africa’s millions of young unemployed.
How can Latin America escape it's middle-income trap? (Daniel Gomez Gaviria, WEF)
This year’s Global Competitiveness Report has good, bad and ugly news for Latin America and the Caribbean. The top performing country in the region remains Chile (33th), rising two places in the rankings, followed by Panama (42th), which moves up eight places. Costa Rica falls slightly to 54th, while Mexico (51st) moves up six. In fact, 4 of the top 10 highest movers this year come from the Latin America and Caribbean region: Jamaica, Panama, Dominican Republic, and Mexico. Among the economies falling in the ranking are El Salvador, Ecuador, Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, and Bolivia.
Here’s how India became more competitive than China (Attilio Di Battista, WEF)
India’s GDP per capita (in terms of purchasing power parity) almost doubled between 2007 and 2016, from $3,587 to $6,599. Growth slowed after the 2008 crisis, hitting a decade low in 2012-2013. But if anything, this provided the country with the opportunity to rethink its policies and engage more firmly in the reforms necessary to improve its competitiveness. Growth rebounded in 2014, and last year surpassed that of China.
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