WEF s online Davos summit to begin Sunday; Modi, Jinping among listed speakers over six days
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WEF s online Davos summit to begin Sunday; Modi, Jinping among listed speakers over six days
PTI / Updated: Feb 13, 2021, 16:32 IST
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NEW DELHI/DAVOS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese premier Xi Jinping will be among the top world leaders who will participate in the six-day online Davos Agenda Summit of the World Economic Forum (WEF), beginning on Sunday.
In what could be the first major global summit of the year, the event will see more than 1,000 global leaders, including heads of state and government, CEOs and chairmen of big companies, heads of multilateral organisations as also members of academia and civil society, discuss economic, environmental, social and technological challenges following the Covid-19 pandemic.
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World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2020, but officials have warned leaders to be more proactive in reviving, transforming and redesigning their economic systems to enhance human development while ensuring environment sustainability.
The special 2020 edition report titled
How Countries are Performing on the Road to Recovery, urged countries to take proactive steps to implement transformative policies, “bold investments and new ventures” to ensure economic recovery.
“Such an approach requires courageous vision and a nuanced balance between the short and long-term . . . This unusual moment calls for innovative and much-needed shifts in policy,” the report said, while pointing out that it will require “building blocks of a transformation towards new economic systems that combine productivity, people and planet targets”.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the World Economic Forum (WEF) Virtual Event of the Davos Agenda and delivers a special address via video link in Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 25, 2021. (Xinhua/Li Xueren)
No global problem can be solved by any one country alone, and there must be global action, global response and global cooperation, Chinese President Xi Jinping said.
GENEVA, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) Chinese President Xi Jinping s new Davos speech was pivotal to boosting multilateral cooperation, leaders of international organizations, business executives and economists have said, stressing China s role as a growth engine in supporting global economic recovery.