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To Save Healthcare Systems, Focus on Patient Outcomes, Global Health Leaders Urge

Global leaders from the healthcare sector unite to appeal for a new model of healthcare delivery in response to rising costs and dissatisfactory patient outcomes. The value-based healthcare model would track and pay for healing, instead of treating, patients Signatories include the Chief Executives/Presidents of Kaiser Permanente, Medtronic, Novartis, Qualcomm Life and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, …

Meet the Social Entrepreneurs Leading Africa’s Transformation

Nine of the World Economic Forum’s 17 global Social Entrepreneurs of the Year for 2017 are actively leading positive transformation in Africa, and achieving outcomes that have eluded governments and conventional businesses Success stories include tackling poaching, mobilizing health workers, reuniting refugees, using fingerprinting to give people an official ID for the first time, and …

New Partnership Aims to Protect World’s $2.5 Trillion Ocean Economy

Partnership between the World Economic Forum and University of California Santa Barbara’s Marine Science Institute aims to boost multistakeholder cooperation to help achieve goal 14 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: to conserve and sustainably use the oceans and marine resources Scientists warned six months ago of “unprecedented” marine extinction, with devastating consequences for ocean …

Trade Is Best Tool to Fight Poverty and Promote Growth

Business leaders and policy-makers are concerned about rising populism and protectionism Ultimately globalization will prevail, but there will be fits and starts China is taking the lead in extolling the virtues of free trade For more information on the Annual Meeting, see http://wef.ch/davos17 Follow the World Economic Forum on all digital platforms: wef.ch/follow 19 January …

New Index to Measure Innovation Performance of Indian States

The World Economic Forum, NITI Aayog, World Intellectual Property Organization and Cornell University have agreed to work together on an India innovation index The index will measure and rank the innovation performance of all Indian states with the aim of moving India towards an innovation-driven economy The first ranking is expected to be released at …