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Relaunching Trade, Growth and Investment

January 17, 2023
14:00–14:40 (Europe/Amsterdam time zone)

About this session

Flows of capital, goods, services and people have boosted productivity and living standards, tripling the size of the global economy over the past three decades. However, tensions over trade and investment are undermining growth and trust. As the cost of further disintegration severely outweighs the benefits, how can leaders reshape the current system to develop a new agenda for trade, growth...
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Speakers

AC
Alexander De Croo
Prime Minister of Belgium
Office of the Prime Minister of Belgium
LF
Laurence D. Fink
Chair and CEO, BlackRock; Co-Chair, World Economic Forum
BlackRock
NO
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Director-General
World Trade Organization (WTO)

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