Davos Could Actually End Extreme Poverty Pretty Easily

Davos Could Actually End Extreme Poverty Pretty Easily

To business leaders, international political leaders, intellectuals, and journalists, the World Economic Forum gathering in Davos has no peer — it is the most powerful conversation and gathering in the world.

This year’s agenda highlights a number of trends which are cause for concern — deteriorating international cooperation, eroding trust in leadership, and unaddressed societal challenges, to name just a few.

As a Schwab social entrepreneur, these words energize me, because I know the potential they have to focus global attention on very solvable problems. There’s one in particular that Davos participants have the immediate power to change — extreme poverty.

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