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World Economic Forum

January 19, 2019

Speaking to Power Festival part of global mobilisation against inequality

Ahead of the World Eoomic Forum meeting in Davos, Kensington and Chelsea joins global mobilisation against inequality.
January 27, 2018

Obsessing about GDP not the answer to solving poverty, says Christian Aid

As the World Economic Forum meets in Davos this week, Christian Aid has released a new report which draws on the agency’s decades of experience in development work to offer a critique of the idea that pursuing increased GDP is the best way of relieving poverty.
January 24, 2018

The International Committee of the Red Cross at Davos

Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, will speak the World Economic Forum in Davos on operational challenges, cyber warfare, innovative finance, and tech partnerships.
January 22, 2018

More than 80% of new global wealth goes to top 1%, says Oxfam

Eighty-two per cent of wealth generated last year across the world went to the richest one per cent of the global population, while the 3.7 billion people who make up the poorest half saw their wealth flatline, according to a new Oxfam report.
August 29, 2017

WEF launches third edition of Global Shapers Annual Survey

The World Economic Forum yesterday launched the third edition of the world’s most geographically diverse survey of millennials, the Global Shapers Annual Survey 2017.
January 3, 2017

Churches chief to have voice at world economic summit

The General Secretary of the World Council of Churches will participate in the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos from 17-20 January 2017.
January 27, 2016

WCC chief presents 'Ten Commandments' of food at Davos

A 21 January World Economic Forum session on how food choices can become a catalyst for positive change became an opportunity for World Council of Churches General Secretary the Rev Dr Olav Fykse Tveit to present “Ten Commandments” of food to the gathered business and political leaders.
January 19, 2016

Christian Aid Urges Davos to act on Swiss bank secrecy

As politicians and business leaders prepare to gather in Davos next week (20-23 January) for the World Economic Forum, Christian Aid questions whether Switzerland’s role as a haven for “dirty” money from poor countries makes it an appropriate host country.
January 24, 2015

'Even It Up' campaign against global inequality steps up a gear

Extreme inequality is threatening to undo much of the progress made over the past 20 years in tackling poverty, says the charity Oxfam.
January 23, 2015

Inequality talk: who wins, who loses, and who acts?

We have suddenly become a world that talks about inequality. That's certainly better than not talking about it. But waxing lyrical about a concern and doing something about it are not the same thing, says Simon Barrow, pointing to the deeper issues calling for action.