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The World Economic Forum in Davos is an important event in the international calendar for business and politics. ODI's director, Simon Maxwell, attends this annual forum and is writing a series of four blogs offering his reflections and predictions on how the debates will be taken forward in 2008. ODI also participated in YouTube's The Davos Question, offering a range of views from Overseas Development Institute researchers to the question: 'What one thing do you think that countries, companies or individuals must do to make the world a better place in 2008?'
Simon Maxwell
"In the last of four blogs with reflections and predictions from Davos, I look at web 2.0, Africa, governance and institutions."
ODI Blog Posts, 5 February 2008. Comment
Simon Maxwell
"In this blog, I consider perspectives in three key areas- biofuels, climate change adaptation and water"
ODI Blog Posts, 4 February 2008.
Simon Maxwell
"Substantively, my enduring memory is of the profile given to hunger and malnutrition, with Robert Zoellick (WB) and Josette Sheeran (WFP) both mounting major public initiatives on the 'forgotten MDG'"
ODI Blog Posts, 1 February 2008.
Simon Maxwell
"...in 2005, business was being called on to deliver for poverty reduction and the MDGs; in 2008, a new culture of global corporate citizenship is taking hold... It is important not to be naïve, of course, but there is something important happening."
ODI Blog Posts, 31 January 2008.
Pam Muckosy
Pam Muckosy discusses how individuals can help to make poor people in developing countries through tourism.
The Davos Debates, 21 January 2008.
Peter Newborne
Peter Newborne highlights the importance on achieving sanitation for all, a goal of the UN's International Year of Sanitation.
The Davos Debates, 18 January 2008.
Leo Peskett
Leo Peskett discusses how to ensure policies for dealing with climate change are 'development-proofed'.
The Davos Debates, 18 January 2008.
Fletcher Tembo
Fletcher Tembo, of the Overseas Development Institute, offers his answer to the Davos Question, discussing the importance of supporting the voice of citizens around the world.
The Davos Debates, 18 January 2008.
Michael Warner
Urging the establishment of a Planetary Petroleum 'windfall' Fund to pay for research and development of technologies that reduce the emission of green-house gases into the planet's atmosphere.
The Davos Debates, 11 January 2008.
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