Dealmakers seek piste of the action in Davos ...
It is often said that many multi-billion dollar deals are struck at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where the corporate top dogs convene for a week of schmoozing and networking over endless platters of canapes....more
HEALTHCARE
Improving medical access for the poor
You can buy an awful lot of vaccines for $750m. Bill Gates's contribution to the Global Alliance on Vaccines and Immunisation (Gavi), launched this week in Davos, is more than seven times what Unicef spends annually on immunisation programmes. Yet it costs just $17 per child to deliver six basic vaccines for diseases such as measles, diphtheria and tetanus, which continue to kill millions of children each year....more
MEDIA
Old guard in fight for online driver's seat
Fighting the old media corner, Sumner Redstone, chief executive of Viacom, cut a lonely figure opposite some of the most powerful names in the "new economy" as Davos became centre stage yesterday for a clash between the content and technology providers...more
INDONESIA
Wiranto faces trial for E Timor rights abuse
President Abdurrahman Wahid of Indonesia yesterday said he would soon dismiss General Wiranto, a cabinet minister and former head of the military, and put him and others implicated in last year's human rights abuses in East Timor on trial...more
IMF
Lobbying places German in pole position
The contest for the leadership of the International Monetary Fund has entered a diplomatic endgame amid signs that Caio Koch-Weser, the German candidate, is moving into pole position...more
GEORGE SOROS
UK is not ready for the euro, says Soros
George Soros, the international financier, said on Monday that the UK was not ready to join the European single currency because the performance of the British economy was diverging from those of its euro-zone counterparts...more
EXECUTIVE TALENT
Worldwide shortage set to rise
The worldwide shortage of executive talent is intensifying and is set to get even worse over the next decade, according to a panel of experts at the World Economic Forum...
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