March-April 2004

SUMMARY:

EDITORIAL
Major turn

DAVOS
President of the Confederation of     Switzerland   pleads for multilateralism.

WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
Business Leaders gather with much     optimism, in Davos.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
US Vice President Dick Cheney plead for European    support.

DAN DAVID PRIZE
Founder of World Economic Forum Wins     Dan David Prize – For Encouraging Peace and Social Responsibility.

JORDAN
Renewed Middle East Peace Effort urged

BILL CLINTON
Certain initiatives deserve to be  “Systematized”

TURKEY
Turkey preparing for EU membership

UNITES NATIONS
Kofi Annan to encourage the South

ALCAN 
Alcan annual durability Prize

GROWTH IN AMERICA 2004
AnnualGrowth west of the Atlantic accelerated in 2003 over the previous year.

DAVOS, AND THE COTTON SUBCIDY QUESTION
President Wade of Senegal  suggested this simple idea

MICROSOFT
Microsoft will donate 1 billion US dollars to UNDP

THE “LULA FUND”
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva rallied with counterpart, French President Jacques Chirac, at the idea of an international tax on the sale of Arms and financial transactions, in order to finance a re-launching of the fight against world hunger.

DEALING WITH RISK AND WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP
Corporate, government and civil society leaders need to establish a more effective framework in order to interpret and manage the risks – and the perceptions of risk – as part of their partnership for prosperity and security for the future.

DELL
Dell wins

SONY
SONY predict a revamp of sales in the music industry.