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Operating in the globalized economy is risky business. The private sector is finding the need to take the initiative to address new challenges that impact business operations as much as the societies in which they operate. Often they are doing so in the absence of regulation or clear global frameworks.
Read about the conference in International Business Leaders Set the Rules of the Game
The 12th International Business Forum, which took place October 9-10, 2007 at the World Bank Headquarters, brought together over two hundred leaders from the global business community together with counterparts in government, multilateral agencies and civil society to debate the private sector's shifting role from rule-takers to rule-makers. The conference focused on the role private business can and should play in shaping tomorrow's global governance structures, and suggested corresponding adjustments required by the public sector.
Themes covered in the Forum included:
The Forum highlighted practices of companies, as individual actors and in partnership, that are conducive to viable global governance structures and support dynamic and broad-based economic development.
Read digests from the 12th International Business Forum and related stories on the World Bank's Private Sector Development Blog.
October 9-10, 2007, World Bank Headquarters, Washington DC |
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