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This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013. Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/. While growing up in a tiny underdeveloped village in Pakistan, where even the availability of electricity was a blessing, I had seen the best and the worst of life at a very young age. The people around […]

This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013. Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/. What is success? Why redefine it? What’s the deal with “sustainability”? Why is it important? If you attended the recently concluded Global Economic Symposium (GES 2013), you would have heard at least a dozen different perspectives […]

This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013. Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/. Most of the panels at the Global Economic Symposium had quite a strict format,  with a bunch of luminaries in direct agreement over a topic discussing what the best approach  to the issue would be. Sometimes there […]

This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013. Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/.  Martin Rich, an ex-investment banker currently with Social Finance, talked about the need for a change in mindset about investments. The major shift that perhaps defines the twentieth century is this: money has replaced people as […]

After many months of writing about the New Bottom Billion I have finally arrived at the Global Economic Symposium 2013 (GES). As I walked out of Kiel’s main station I realized that the GES’s theme of ‘Redefining Success’ is well suited to my new  surroundings. Global challenges are going to […]