Malawi is using bamboo to fight climate change. Hundreds of rows of giant bamboo grow about an hour outside of Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi. It’s an unexpected sight—Malawi has lost nearly 10 percent of its forests since 2001, and b...
At a Glance: The Global Competitiveness Index 4.0 2019 Rankings. Chapter 1: Global Findings. Chapter 2: Regional and Country Analysis. Chapter 3: Competitiveness, Equality and Sustainability—The Way Forward. Appendix A: The Global Competitiveness Index 4.0 Methodology and Technical Notes. Appendix B: The Executive Opinion Survey: The Voice of ...
The Global Competitiveness Report series has since its first edition aimed to prompt policy-makers beyond short term growth and to aim for long-run prosperity. The 2020 special edition is dedicated to elaborating on the priorities for recovery and revival, and considering the building blocks of a transformation towards new economic systems that ...
Executive Summary. The 2020 special edition of The Global Competitiveness Report (GCR) series comes out at a very difficult and uncertain historical moment. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has not only led to a global health crisis and deep economic recession—deeper than the downturn during the 2008–2009 financial crisis—but has ...
Current activities in the region are organised in the following countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania ...
The Global Competitiveness Report Special Edition 2020 series has, since its first edition, aimed to move focus beyond the growth-only paradigm and has been central at pointing out the need for public-private collaboration.The Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) contained in the report has continued to evolve along with the latest economic thinking, the needs of society and technological ...
The median level of women in senior roles is 33%, and while there are four economies (Burkina Faso, Botswana, Côte d’Ivoire and Togo) where there are almost as many women as men in senior positions, there are another three economies (Malawi, Gambia and Mali) where women are only 15.6% to 17.5% of the senior officials, which means that over ...
In his own right, Dr Chikaonda is a Director of Illovo Sugar (Malawi) Limited and has also served as a Member of the Presidential Advisory Council under the terms of two (2) of Malawi’s Presidents. He is also a member of the Leadership Council for the US-based Initiative for Global Development (IGD).
We want to express our gratitude to the core project team involved in the production of this report: Roberto Crotti and Kusum Kali Pal, as well as their colleagues who supported the development of the new concepts for future transformation: Silja Baller, Sophie Brown, Attilio di Battista, Guillaume Hingel, and Vesselina Stefanova Ratcheva.
Algeria (60.2%, -3 percentage points), Malawi (63.2%, -3.9 percentage points) and Benin (61.2%, -4.1 percentage points) have declined the most over the last year. Table 1.1 presents the 2022 Global Gender Gap rankings and the scores for all 146 countries included in this year's report.
The World Economic Forum’s Centre for the New Economy and Society is pleased to acknowledge and thank the following organizations as its valued Partner Institutes, without which the realization of The Global Competitiveness Report Special Edition 2020 would not have been feasible:
41. This can be achieved either in a more direct way, banning open market repurchases altogether (as proposed by the recent “Reward Work Act”) or more mildly, by introducing closer supervision by stock market authorities (e.g. S.E.C.) with the possibility of charging companies that are found to manipulate the stock’s price (for more details on this, see for instance https://www.nytimes ...
Founded in Seattle, Landesa has helped secure land rights for more than 120 million families in over 50 countries. Landesa has active projects in China, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique and Myanmar.