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Davos: Clean Water Fight

Posted on Friday, Jan 26th

“This year, for example, several groups in Davos are pushing initiatives designed to improve the delivery of clean water to the developing world. Meanwhile in Nairobi, water NGOs are pushing their own initiatives to the same end at the “other” event. Both sides cite the same shocking figures – that more than one billion people

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Davos: Energy’s Next Big Thing

Posted on Wednesday, Jan 24th

“But Google’s Mr. Page had another topic on his mind: energy transmission. He said innovations are badly needed in energy transmission networks. Google is a heavy user of power for the armies of computer servers it must maintain, and it has to seek out cheap power geographically.” Yes, and India and China will need power

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Davos: India

Posted on Wednesday, Jan 24th

The World Bank has prepared a special section online with useful information about India related to the World Economic Forum in Davos, underway this week. The theme of Davos this year is “The Shifting Power Equation.” We have organized our resources around the subthemes of the meeting: Economics: New drivers | Geopolitics: The Need for

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