Former Foreign Minister of Afghanistan, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, joins the Davos Debates to answer the following question posted on youtube.com/davos: If education helps prevent disease and poverty rates, why do governments not offer more to help in developing countries?
The world’s top politicians are dropping out from the WEF‘s highly publicised list of top VIPs.
Last-minute cancellations happen more or less every year, but this year it’s at an alarming rate.
Japanese PM Yukio Hatoyama, mired in domestic political turmoil and facing busy Parliament sessions at home, has pulled out of the forum and is sending his strategy minister Sengoku instead. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has decided not to make a detour from London where he’s due to attend a conference on Afghanistan this week.
