Archive for the “Innovation” category

Tackling one of the biggest threats to our children: Suicide

by admin on March 16, 2012

While I usually speak about economic issue or geopolitic or global issues, today I would like to discuss an issue that’s about care for our kids, about the next generation and about a specific danger they are facing: suicide. When (…)

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Global Food Security: The Biggest Challenge For Our World

by admin on March 14, 2012

Last week in Rabat, Morocco, we launched the Global Food Security Forum, which was created as an initiative of OCP Group (the world’s leading provider of phosphates based in Morocco). We felt the particularly urgent need to do this now, because as climate change (…)

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Startup Africa

by Richard Attias on February 21, 2012

As Europe and the US struggle to get their finances in order, and the BRIC nations do their best to build on recent successes, another continent has been quietly gaining pace. And lately not so quietly. Last year a stream (…)

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Obama at APEC: America is still welcome

by Richard Attias on November 21, 2011

Although his remarks at the recent APEC CEO conference in Hawaii earlier this month were mostly serious, US President Barack Obama opened with a joke. “This is my birthplace, I know that was contested for a while,” he said. “I (…)

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