Every debt crisis begins with unheeded warnings and ends with severe limits on investment
in education, health, and infrastructure among other things. These crises often spark civil unrest and government collapse, delivering a lasting setback to the growth prospects of the affected country.
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Re-establishing trust in the digital age of accelerated innovation
Is this the golden age of innovation? 
It has been said that we now find ourselves in the “Golden Age of Innovation.” While it is undeniably true that we live in a time when the pace of technological change is faster than ever before, from available new digital technologies to the data that fuels them the picture is not always as rosy as some would have it.
12 moments for water in 2016
2016 has become the year for water. From the World Economic Forum, COP22, to the
Budapest Water Summit, water has been widely acknowledged as a key to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, and essential to the climate change solution.
Here are the defining moments of 2016 that put water security and sustainability on the global agenda like never before:
How can Hong Kong stay smart and competitive? By driving change through a ‘Public-Private-People Partnership’ approach
According to the World Economic Forum’s “Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017,” Hong Kong dropped two notches to rank as No. 9 in its Global Competitiveness Index. The decline occurred mainly because the city faces challenges to “evolve from one of the world’s foremost financial hubs to become an innovative powerhouse.”
Interview with Paul Polman
Inspirational speaker, great CEO and a Dutch citizen who received the second annual Holland on the Hill Heineken Award on May 15, 2015, for his entrepreneurial endeavors in both the Netherlands and the United States.
Below he answers questions about the upcoming World 
Economic Forum on Africa, taking place in Cape Town on 4th and 5th June.
Netherlands for the World Bank 
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