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The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international advocacy non-governmental organization and think tank, based in Cologny, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.It was founded on 24 January 1971 by German engineer Klaus Schwab.
A ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization, in the Palace of Nations (Geneva, Switzerland). The following is a list of the major existing intergovernmental organizations (IGOs).
Economic Cooperation Organization Trade Agreement; ... World Bank; World Bank office, Chennai; World Development Report; World Economics Association; Y. Youth ...
The American economists Harry Dexter White (left) and John Maynard Keynes (right) at the Bretton Woods Conference in New Hampshire [27]. The WTO precursor, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), was established by a multilateral treaty of 23 countries in 1947 after the end of World War II, in the wake of other new multilateral institutions dedicated to international economic ...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; French: Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an intergovernmental organization with 38 member countries, [1] [4] founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade.
The Global Competitiveness Report (GCR) [1] was a yearly report published by the World Economic Forum.Between 2004 and 2020, [2] the Global Competitiveness Report ranked countries based on the Global Competitiveness Index, [1] developed by Xavier Sala-i-Martin and Elsa V. Artadi. [3]
The program was founded by Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum in 1992 under the name “Global Leaders for Tomorrow” and was renamed to Young Global Leaders in 2003. [1] Schwab created the group with $1 million won from the Dan David Prize, [2] and the inaugural 2005 class comprised 237 young leaders. Since then, a total of some 1400 ...
The offices of the United Nations in Geneva (Switzerland), which is the city that hosts the highest number of international organizations in the world [1]. An international organization, also known as an intergovernmental organization or an international institution, is an organization that is established by a treaty or other type of instrument governed by international law and possesses its ...