Tag Archives: DAVOS 2016
Is a ‘paradise with no people’ really a paradise?
By : Turki Al-Dakhil Which culture surprised you the most when you visited its country of origin, read about or learned of its habits? Of course, we all have some sort of memory of a certain culture, civilization or environment
Davos: With the Saudis absent, Zarif’s fairy tales prevailed
By : Faisal J. Abbas Iranian Foreign Secretary Mohammad Javad Zarif certainly got a free ride at this year’s World Economic Forum. His views on the region went completely unchallenged in the absence of a counter-argument, and due to the
Getting inside the heads of millennials
By : Punit Renjen Fresh out of grad school, I arrived for my first day of work at Deloitte ready for the long haul. For my generation, that’s what those early years were about – laying the foundation for a
Queen Rania of Jordan raises plight of refugees
Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan spoke of the plight of refugees on Wednesday during a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Panellists at the WEF annual Meeting in Davos called for a paradigm shift to
Are we sleepwalking into geopolitical turmoil?
By : Espen Barth Eide Without a concerted effort to properly address current trends, the world is at risk of sleepwalking into a future of widening chaos with growing danger of interstate conflict. This is the conclusion of a year-long
The Fourth Industrial Revolution
By : Klaus Schwab We stand on the brink of a technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate to one another. In its scale, scope, and complexity, the transformation will be unlike anything humankind
Britain’s Cameron urges EU to relax Jordan trade to help refugees
UK Prime Minister David Cameron will call on EU leaders to relax trade rules with Jordan to help spur economic growth and help “hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees across the region to work”. Before arriving at the World Economic
Davos kicks off with slowing economic growth in focus
A string of militant attacks and rising risks to the global economy overshadow the opening Wednesday of the annual gathering of the world’s rich and powerful in a snow-blanketed Swiss ski resort. The heightened security threat was starkly in evidence
Limiting German refugee intake not unethical, president says
Germany cannot take in all the asylum seekers who want to begin a new life there and it is not unethical of Berlin to limit the influx, President Joachim Gauck said on Wednesday, pressing other Europeancountries to share the burden.
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