World Economic Forum

Women's health gap costs $1 trillion worldwide: Report

The huge gap between how women and men's health are treated costs $1 trillion a year worldwide, the World Economic Forum (WEF) said yesterday. 

Women spend a quarter more of their lives suffering from poor health than men, a disparity that includes an unequal focus on men across medical research, diagnosis and treatment, the report said.

Lagarde Signals Potential ECB Interest Rate Cut in Summer Amidst Wage Growth Uncertainty

European Central Bank (ECB) Governor Christine Lagarde suggested on Wednesday that the ECB might implement interest rate cuts in the summer. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Lagarde noted that sufficient data on wage growth would be available by "late spring," enabling central bankers to determine whether eurozone inflation is set to rise or fall.

Brnabic: Pristina's moves a problem for any dialogue whatsoever

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said on Wednesday Pristina's announcement that it might stop payment transactions with central Serbia, ban the Serbian dinar and raid the offices of the Serbian Postal Savings Bank was one of the key problems not only for further normalisation of Belgrade-Pristina relations but for any dialogue whatsoever.

Vucic meets with O'Brien, De Croo, Grossi on first day of WEF meeting

DAVOS - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is attending the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, where he will until January 19 have a series of bilateral meetings with international and European officials and numerous representatives of international organisations, financial institutions and leading global companies.

Bulgarian PM Denkov: March 6 Deadline for Cabinet Resignation

In a statement made at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov emphasized that the current Bulgarian Cabinet must resign by March 6 at the latest. The move is a crucial step to facilitate the government rotation, with Deputy Prime Minister Mariya Gabriel set to assume office promptly.

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