Financial Crisis: Davos Summit Wants to "Shape the Post-Crisis World"
The 39th edition of the World Social Forum is taking place from the 28th of January to the 1st of February 2009. This edition of the Davos Summit is particular as it must address what may be the worst financial crisis since the first summit in 1971. 2500 participants from 96 countries will work around the theme of “Shaping the post-crisis world”.
World Economic Forum's Official Website
Blogs
- Blog of the NYT by Floyd Norris
- Blog of the Guardian
- Blog of the International Herald Tribune
- Blog of the Financial Times
Articles
- 02.02.2009, International Herald Tribune
Where Would We Be if Women ran Wall Street
By Katrin Bennhold
Would the world be in this financial mess if it had been Lehman Sisters? That question, asked by the moderator of one panel here, certainly hit a nerve with some of the more defensive male participants at the World Economic Forum. - 01.02 2009, The Financial Times
No consensus on restoring trust in business
By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson
Business leaders, stunned by their loss of public trust and fearful of a further backlash, vowed at the weekend to join forces more often in order to share the burden of tackling challenges from shrinking demand to climate change. - 29.01.2009, The Financial Times
Africans Fear Economic "Abandonment"
The serious threat to African economies posed by the global financial crisis is an emerging theme at the World Economic Forum. Politicians and economists have stressed that an era of relative optimism about Africa’s economic prospects is coming to a close. - 28.01.2009, BBC News
Davos starts in very Gloomy mood by Tim Weber
“A gloomy economic outlook dominates discussions as global political leaders and business people gather for the annual World Economic Forum in Davos.” - 25.01.2009, International Herald Tribune
At Davos, crisis culls the guest list by Nelson D. Schawrtz
“The Masters of the Universe no longer sit atop the magic mountain.”
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