Thursday, January 20, 2011

New Report Identifies Most Important Global Issues for 2011

  • World Economic Forum's The Outlook on the Global Agenda 2011 identifies four major risk trends - global power shifts, economic uncertainty, resource scarcity and institutional weakness
  • The World Economic Forum's Summit on the Global Agenda built a new mandate for the new reality: institutions and decision-makers must find new forms of cooperation to actively rebalance risks
  • Global experts identified emerging weak signals, including lack of global leadership, increasing intolerance and extremism and augmented access to communications and connectivity tools leading to a shift of power from the top to the bottom

Geneva, Switzerland, 20 January 2011 - The Outlook on the Global Agenda 2011 report, launched today, emphasizes the importance of rebalancing risks and opportunities and developing collaborative solutions on a global scale.

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