ODI On... The World Economic Forum in Davos 2008

Last week, I attended the World Economic Forum in Davos. This is the last of four blogs with my reflections and predictions on how the debates will be taken forward in 2008. (for the other blogs, visit 'ODI on... Davos 2008')

There was much, much else on the Davos agenda – on risk and risk management, geopolitics, global governance, web 2.0 . . .

Last week, I attended the World Economic Forum in Davos. This is the second of four blogs with my reflections and predictions on how the debates will be taken forward in 2008. (for the other blogs, visit 'ODI on... Davos 2008')

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’.

Pam Muckosy, of the Overseas Development Institute, offers her answer to the Davos Question, discussing how individuals can help to make poor people in developing countries through tourism.

Peter Newborne, of the Overseas Development Institute, offers his answer to the Davos Question, highlighting the importance on achieving sanitation for all, a goal of the UN's International Year of Sanitation.

Michael Warner, of the Overseas Development Institute, offers his answer to the Davos Question, 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.  

See also: ODI Opinion Paper by Michael Warner.