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Emma Watson Helps Reveal HeForShe Parity Report

Ten of the world’s leading companies have released new workforce gender diversity figures, including details on leadership roles and board membership, in UN Women&rsq...

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WEF Creates Task Force With Carney, Rajan To Study Global Financial System’

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has created a new task force with Bank of England Governor Mark Carney and his counterpart at the Reserve Bank of India, Raghuram Rajan, to s...

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It's Time To Break The Chains Of Dependency For Girls And Women

Throughout history, girls and women have often been invisible outside the home. Even now, in 2016, there are countries where women are prevented from getting a job, from ow...

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Gender Gap Persists At World Economic Forum

“Davos Man” is being urged to broaden his circle, to include more women.With no lines for women at the bathrooms and corridors filled with men in suits, the Wor...

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9 Economists Whose Ideas Are Changing The World

We’re living in the age of the rock star academic. Everyone is trying to make sense of financial crises and the old economics textbooks don’t work so well anymo...

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From Davos: This Idea Could Transform Global Food Systems

Global food security is a hot topic here at the World Economic Forum (WEF). Will we hit on an easy solution to this enormous challenge in five days in Davos? Of course not....

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Leonardo DiCaprio Honored At World Economic Forum

Leonardo DiCaprio was honored at the Crystal Awards as part of the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, and used the opportunity to tell the gathered world and business...

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UN Announces First-Ever High-Level Panel On Women’s Economic Empowerment

Davos— UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced the first-ever High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment to provide thought leadership and mobilize...

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Opinion: Bill Gates: Here Are My Three Goals For 2016

DAVOS, Switzerland (Project Syndicate) — We live in extraordinary times. Each day seems to bring fresh headlines about an unfolding crisis — whether it is migra...

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The Amount Of Plastic In The Ocean Could Outweigh Fish By 2050

Entitled "The New Plastics Economy: Rethinking the future of plastics," the report containsplenty of sickening statistics about the amount of plastic polluting the ocean, l...

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