GENEVA, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) More than 2,000 business, government and civil society leaders and 25 heads of state or government are set to meet virtually for the World Economic Forum (WEF) Davos Agenda this week to tackle the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and address the urgent need for global cooperation.
More than 2,000 leaders worldwide will join the World Economic Forum (WEF) s virtual Davos Agenda event held from Monday to Friday. The theme of the agenda for this year is
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The government of Bangladesh today signed a $6.5 million financing agreement with the World Bank to enable around 39,000 slum children complete primary education as well as provide pre-vocational training to 8,500 school-dropped out youths in Cox’s Bazar.
This additional financing to the Second Reaching Out of School Children (ROSC II) Project will support poor children aged between 8- to 14-years in eight city corporations to complete primary education cycle. This will also help vulnerable out-of-school local youth and adolescents in Cox’s Bazar to complete three-month courses in pre-vocational and enterprise development training.
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The pandemic has disproportionately impacted the education of children from poorer households,” said Mercy Tembon, World Bank Country Director for Bangladesh and Bhutan. “
Davos Agenda: Asia to dominate virtual event as Covid-hit West struggles
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In the virtual format of World Economic Forum because of the pandemic, next week s event is headlined as A Crucial Year to Rebuild Trust. The spotlight will be on Chinese President Xi Jinping, who will give a speech on Monday
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Emerging stronger from the Covid-19 pandemic, Asia is set to dominate this year s virtual World Economic Forum as a virus-battered West struggles and a new US president faces particularly daunting challenges.
The 2020 WEF, which took place in its usual Swiss Alpine resort of Davos, saw the global elite just starting to worry about a pandemic that surfaced in China a month earlier.