Davos Annual Meeting 2010 – Meeting the Millennium Development Goals
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www.weforum.org 29.01.2010 The combination of food and financial crises trapped an estimated 50 to 90 million people in extreme poverty in 2009. How can the Millennium Development Goals for 2015 be met in the wake of the economic crisis? Vikram K. Akula, Founder and Chairperson, SKS Microfinance, India; Young Global Leader; Global Agenda Council on Poverty & Development Finance Helen E. Clark, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), New York William H. Gates III, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), Geneva; Global Agenda Council on a Healthy Next Generation Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University and Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals, USA Morgan Tsvangirai, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Moderated by Lord Malloch-Brown, Senior Adviser, Global Redesign Initiative, World Economic Forum
Morgan is one of the smartest & emerging African leaders who has the vision for a poverty-free Africa. Leaders like Morgan need the world’s support to be able to change Africa’s path towards development for the better…
agreed
Still… all that I hear is: blabla blabla blabla!
I feel proud of my boss Vikram Akula
Morgan, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe is the smartest guy there, and Bill Gates is one of the smartest guys in the World! Morgan says its a Leadership Challenge, and people need electricity and water. Ultimately, it is the thinking of the masses of people which must change, and that does take Leadership.