Tag: World Economic Forum

This year coincides with the World Economic Forum's 50th anniversary and 35 years of the Forum's collaboration with India.

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London: Twenty-six richest billionaires own as many assets as the 3.8 billion people who make up for the poorest half of the planets population, British charity Oxfam said in a report on Monday. In an annual wealth check released to mark the start of the World Economic Forum in Davos, the development charity said 2018 […]

Davos: French President Emmanuel Macron has appealed for inclusive and sustainable globalization while addressing participants of the ongoing annual World Economic Forum here. “Economic growth is not an end in itself, it is a means to an end,” said Macron on Wednesday. “The search for economic growth has sometimes let us forget what people are […]

New Delhi: Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will give the World Economic Forum (WEF) in the Swiss town of Davos a miss since he is busy with the Union Budget to be presented on February 1. Jaitley was supposed to accompany Prime Minister Narendra Modi who arived in Switzerland on Monday to attend the WEF. […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday left for Davos in Switzerland to attend the World Economic Forum. “Showcasing India’s resilient economy and India’s attractiveness as a destination of doing business! “PM Narendra Modi emplanes for Davos to participate in the World Economic Forum,” Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said in a […]

Washington: US President Donald Trump would meet leaders from Britain, Israel and other countries to discuss security issues, including North Korea, the ISIS, the Middle East and Iran, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the White House said today. He will use his time to discuss national security issues, including the international effort to […]

As the WEF annual summit ends here, a large number of corporate leaders including at blue chip firms like TCS, M&M, Kotak and Tech Mahindra say they are on the lookout for potential acquisitions and will take the plunge if right targets emerge

Davos: Nearly half of the Indian CEOs surveyed are “very confident” about revenue gains for their companies in the next 12 months, even as they cited availability of skilled talent and corruption as major business threats, as per a PwC study. According to PwC’s 17th Annual Global CEO survey, released by World Economic Forum here, […]

Asserting that India's economic growth will be significantly better next year, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Thursday said the real economic growth potential of the country was over 9 percent

New Delhi: India fell 10 positions, to the 68th rank, in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Competitiveness Index. The concept of Global Competitiveness Index 4.0. 2019 is anchored in growth accounting theory, which measures the sum of growth in the factors of production — labour and capital — and of total factor productivity (TFP). […]

New Delhi: Only one in four Indians are willing to take a lower carbon footprint alternative to air travel, even at the cost of inconvenience and additional expense, according to a new World Economic Forum study. About 37 per cent Indians on the other hand would take the transport with a lower carbon footprint – […]

Davos: Global leaders expressed hope for better economic growth with lesser trade tensions and a safer planet with commitments to work in areas like climate change, as the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum ended here on Friday. In the closing session, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said the world is a better place […]

Bhubaneswar: Tata Steel Kalinganagar has been honoured at the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2020 for its recent admittance into the Global Lighthouse Network. The network is a small but growing group of global corporations that are showing leadership in applying fourth industrial revolution technologies to drive financial and operational impact. Tata Steel’s CEO & MD […]

Geneva: At least 6 out of 10 people worldwide are likely to lose their jobs by 2025 as humans and machines will probably spend equal amounts of time at work, reveals a new report published by the World Economic Forum (WEF). The report was based on a survey of 32,000 workers conducted by the consulting […]