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World Economic Forum

Posted on January 22, 2008 by Floyd Mann
Topics: Economic Development
Countries: Switzerland

The annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland takes places this week.

The theme of this year's meeting is "The Power of Collaborative Innovation". How "partnerships between business, government and communities can offer a useful solution" for water scarcity is also supposed to be on the agenda, and Bono will be there again continuing to push for debt relief for poor nations.

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