10 Things you didn’t know about World Economic Forum (Part II)

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7. On the future of the internet: Launch of a multi-year initiative to promote partnerships for governance, cyber-crime and expanding internet access; the initiative engages 50 leading public sector, academic, business and civil society figures as trustees for this unique public-private global collaboration

8. On infrastructure, long-term investing and sustainable development: Creation of the Sustainable Development Investment Partnership working to mobilise $100 billion in private finance for development, launched at the recent United Nations Financing for Development conference in Addis Ababa in partnership with the OECD and a coalition of public and private actors

9. On economic growth and social inclusion: Launch of the new Inclusive Growth and Development Report, which assesses the drivers of economic prosperity and the extent to which countries are exploiting the available policy space to foster higher levels of productivity and social inclusion

10. On natural resource security and climate change: Mobilisation of the Tropical Forest Alliance, a $10 million global partnership hosted by the Forum to help companies, governments and civil society organisations achieve zero net deforestation by 2020 in the supply chains of beef, palm oil, paper and pulp, and soy – currently drivers of half of the world’s tropical deforestation.


Source :World Economic Forum
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posted on: Thursday May 19, 2016 by Maurice Nshuti

 

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