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Financial Crisis: Davos Summit Wants to "Shape the Post-Crisis World"

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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”.

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  • 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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