Already said last week the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde: "Optimism is in the air." And so begins this year's World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland), who wants to verify the improvement in the global economy and the renewed prominence in charge she developed countries. "Two or three years ago, developing countries received all the attention and seemed to be the answer to all the problems of the global economy. But now the global economy grows and does so without them and there are many questions emerging leaders about what they plan to do to correct the situation, "said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS consultant and a stalwart of Davos in the past five years.
It is the new world that is emerging at the exit of the crisis and referred to by the World Economic Forum in its theme this year Redesigning the world: implications for society, politics and business. The forum wants to transfer the message that now that the crisis is behind us, we must return to address issues that were buried by the urgency to save the global economy from the abyss. If we ignore the weight gain issues on the agenda this year in Davos, inequality, health and climate change have become a place in the discussion of the elite gathered at the Swiss resort are given. Are the risks that identifies the organization for the next 12 months, only the recipes come to be the same. "There is a contradiction bet on the liberalization of labor markets and denounce the growing income inequality. In the short term, it may be painful, but will generate more long-term growth, " Behravesh repeats as if the five years of the greatest financial crisis of the last three generations had passed in vain.
The opening of the forum on Tuesday told a special message from Pope Francisco participants, whose responsibility appealed to the fragile, weak and vulnerable, and who requested decided to end poverty measures.
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