Two years ago, at a World Bank forum on hygiene and health, Dr Curtis suggested a global partnership between soap makers and sanitation experts.
Once again, at the Russia Calling forum run by VTB Bank in Moscow, leaders tried convincing investors that it was getting ready for life after oil.
Global institutions such as the World Bank and the World Economic Forum have helped to popularise entrepreneurialism.
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In global finance, the Bank for International Settlements should be transformed from a discussion forum for central bankers into a policy co-ordinating body, turning it into the world's central bank with a mandate to keep inflation stable and low worldwide.
As part of its consultation processes, the World Bank is starting a worldwide electronic forum on the issue.
This completed a hat-trick: on May 25th, a report on bank supervision from the Financial Stability Forum, a group of international regulators, had ranked the islands in the lowest grade.
At a press conference in Frankfurt Thursday, Deutsche Bank Co-CEO Jain said he discussed the possibility of a global Libor settlement with other bank chiefs at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, according to Bloomberg.
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"The best way to achieve the results we desire is through engagement and communication, and the SED is an important tool to further the U.S.-China economic relationship, " says Donald Evans, chief executive officer of the Financial Services Forum, a group whose members include Citibank, Bank of America, HSBC and Paulson's alma mater, Goldman Sachs.
Similarly, consider the annual Political Corruption Index compiled by the World Bank, Economist Intelligence Unit and World Economic Forum: Egypt is ranked 98th, once again about half-way down a long list of 179 countries, which means it is far less corrupt than such countries as Argentina (105th), Indonesia (110th), Syria (127th), the Philippines (134th), Iran (146th), Russia (154th) and the supposed U.S. role model, Iraq (175th).
On Monday, China central bank advisor Xia Bin was at a Beijing economics forum.
By contrast, none of the senior executives from China's state-controlled bank and energy giants are scheduled attend this week's forum, according to the forum's list.
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Central bank liquidity policy needs refining and harmonising, as the Financial Stability Forum, a group of banking-industry regulators, made clear in a report in April.
Bank of Italy Governor Ignazio Visco on Friday told Bloomberg TV at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that the trades "that were risky, the ones that had reduced liquidity at the bank, were actually connected with other operations which had losses we were not informed of".
In Moscow, during the fourth annual Russia Calling conference, a forum for Russia investors put on by VTB Capital, Alexey Ulyukaev, the first deputy chairman of the Bank of Russia lamented his position in words that could have been said by Bernanke, Draghi, or Brazilian Central Banker Alexandre Tombini.
Vikram Pandit, Citigroup's chief executive, called on Mr. Buiter to help prepare him for the World Economic Forum earlier this year in Davos, Switzerland, and has invited the economist to speak at dinners for the bank's corporate clients.
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