The battle is hotting up for the top job at the IMF following Dominique Strauss-Kahn's resignation. French Finance Minister, Christine Lagarde, is still seen as the favourite but developing countries are also putting forward their own candidates.
Raphael Kahane interviews World Bank Managing Director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in Davos. She discusses the impact of the surge in food and commodity prices on the world's poorest countries.
Is the pattern of growing inequality that we have witnessed across the Western world over the past few decades appearing in other parts of the world as well, particularly the emerging countries? How can we explain this pattern? What are its consequences and what can be done to address it?
International trade declined 12% in volume in 2009, due to the world economic crisis. Pascal Lamy, Director general of the WTO expects better figures in 2010. He also discusses the status of the Doha Rounds.
EU leaders in Brussels will try to deliver by Friday an initial six-billion-euro aid package to help developing countries tackle climate change. The EU hopes the gesture will push other developed nations to follow suit.
EU leaders are in Brussels over the next two days to discuss the cash needed to help developing countries tackle climate change. The EU hopes other developed nations will follow suit in plumping up cash to fund action against global warming.
Habib Ouane, director of the least-developed countries division of UNCTAD, the UN’s trade and development body, discusses the impact of the global economic crisis on emerging nations.
Olivier de Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, welcomes the 20 billion dollars released by the G8 for food production to help the world’s poor survive the economic downturn.
