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GES Perspectives 2013

The Global Economic Symposium (GES) is a solution forum which identifies global challenges, examines their policy and business implications, and formulates concrete proposals for action with a view to creating a better world for the next generation. Unlike many other leading conferences, the Global Economic Symposium is both research-based and strongly action-oriented. Every session of the GES is organized by researchers and an international team of experts and supported by the GES’s own virtual platform. Results of the GES are published in the book Global Economic Solutions, which are submitted to national governments, the major international organizations, business leaders, academics and the wider GES community. The GES takes place in alteration between Kiel, Germany, and a major international center. This year’s GES will take place in Kiel from 1st to 2nd October.

GES Perspectives is a forum for Future Challenges bloggers who will attend the Global Economic Symposium. Each of our GES bloggers will take part in a session at the annual conference. They will regularly publish blogposts dealing with the topics of their session. Our goal is to provide diverse perspectives on the topics that will be discussed at the Global Economic Symposium. We have chosen one blogger out of each of the nine Future Challenges regional networks.

GES Perspective

  • The right to visual arts: a stimulus on education

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    The following article deals with the topic “Effective Investments in Education” which will be discussed at the Global Economic Symposium in Rio this October. The author intends to enrich the discussion at the symposium with her personal stories and ideas. In the past few weeks I’ve been following the work realized by […]

  • Rio de Janeiro

    Future Economic Dialogue at the Global Economic Symposium

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    International Conference in Rio de Janeiro, October 16 to 17, 2012 Economic and financial crises, demographic change, transboundary migration – many states confront similar social and economic problems today.  The roots of these problems are partly domestic and partly the result of the ongoing integration of formerly isolated markets and […]

  • Video: Sunita Narain, Indian environmental activist

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    One of the most compelling visions for adapting to climate change in the developing world, another topic of the GES2011 panel discussions, came from Sunita Narain. She is one of the most resolute Indian environmental and political activists and is running India’s Centre for Science and Environment, which now has […]

  • The Era of Muddling Through

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    It took me a while to define what I felt about the Global Economic Symposium 2011. While in there, I was immersed in the energy of the speakers, in the enthusiasm of the Global Economic Fellows, in the diversity of topics covered – from resource governance to migration to cyber-security […]