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08 Mar 2021 Kirsten Salyer Opinion Editor, World Economic Forum For International Womens Day, we asked World Economic Forum Managing Director Sarita Nayyar to share the lessons she learned from some of the women who have inspired her throughout her career. The list includes Maya Angelou, Indra Nooyi and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Each year, International Womens Day is a reminder of how far we still have to go to closing the gender gap and achieving gender parity. At the same time, its an...

To mark International Women's Day we celebrate the diverse group of women working on the COVAX initiative to ensure fair distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.

International Women's Day: Period poverty and how this Chinese retailer is tackling the issue.

Climate change is lengthening the duration of natural pollen seasons. In the US, pollen seasons are starting 20 days sooner than they did in the 1990s.

In low- and middle-income countries, there are up to 35 million formal MSMEs and 124 million informal MSMEs with at least one female owner. To ensure these women entrepreneurs can survive and thrive in the digital economy, they need access to three critical enablers: capital, digital tools and skills, and a supportive environment so they can access and use these tools to their fullest. Give women access and skills “E-commerce is the new knowledge which small businesses are lacking,” say...

Major business organizations are now beginning to back diversity at boardroom level – but it would be self-defeating to force out older executives in the process.

An emerging approach to the economy combines the best of the public sector (governments), private sector (for-profit) and social sector (non-profits). This evolution has led to the blurring of boundaries among these three sectors, bringing an additional fourth sector into focus. While fragmented and still forming, this nascent fourth sector points a way forward to address the failures of the current system. When G20 leaders met virtually at the end of last year for the Riyadh summit under the t...

According to KSEB, the state's electricity board, it is predicted that this will help Kerala cover a quarter of its electricity needs from the sun by 2022.

Scientists say warmer seas are creating more rain, waking dormant eggs, and cyclones that disperse the swarms are getting stronger and more frequent. The Bug Picture is working with communities around the area of Laikipia, Isiolo and Samburu in central Kenya to harvest the insects and mill them, turning them into protein-rich animal feed and organic fertilizer for farms. “We are trying to create hope in a hopeless situation, and help these communities alter their perspective to see these inse...

Voters in Switzerland have given the green light to a free trade deal with Indonesia with a slim majority of 51.6%.