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...world economy is on track to enjoy another bumper year in 2006 as this twin American-Chinese engine continues to power ahead. That upbeat forecast - albeit with some significant caveats - emerged from a lively discussion of Time 's Board of Economists at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week. "The outlook is basically for another Goldilocks kind ofyear," is how Laura D. Tyson, dean of the London Business School and a former White House economist, summed it up. The U.S. economy is expected to slow somewhat but still grow at around 3%, while China could notch up another...
Robert Mitchell, a spokesman for Kirby, said the dean was in New York for a meeting today and could not be reached for comment. Summers is in Davos, Switzerland for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. John Longbrake, a spokesman for the president, said, “I won’t comment on rumors...
...drew as much attention for his attire as he did for his presentations. A photographer for The Associated Press captured the footwear of several panelists at the 2005 meeting, most of whom sported traditional, black dress shoes. But Summers, prepared for the snowy conditions and freezing temperatures in Davos, Switzerland, donned a slightly less academic pair of Timberland boots (see picture at right). As the 2006 meeting begins tomorrow, will Summers go with the practical footwear once again, or will he opt for his Sunday best...
Summers, who is co-chairing the group’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland this week, lauded the social and economic benefits of female education in the interview. He predicted that greater education would lead to "smaller, healthier and happier families" if it were given sufficient support...
...Tick Tock," by David Warsh at Economic Principals "Should Harvard University president Lawrence Summers travel this week to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as he usually does, he'll find that the hottest item in the snowy little Alpine village is the international edition of Institutional Investor — the one with the cover story, 'How Harvard Lost Russia: The inside story of what happened when the enormous power and resources of the United States government were put in the wrong hands.'" [Read the Institutional Investor story here...