Davos Annual Meeting 2008 - Global Economic Outlook 2008

http://www.weforum.org/ 26.01.2008 With growing concern about the slowdown in the US and Europe, and overheating in China and India, the economic outlook for 2008 remains uncertain. How might the world economy evolve in the next 12 to 18 months? Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University, USA Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington DC Yoshimi Watanabe, Minister of State for Financial Services and Administrative Reform of Japan Christine Lagarde, Minister of Economy, Finance and Employment of France Palaniappan Chidambaram, Minister of Finance of India John A. Thain, Chief Executive Officer, Merrill Lynch, USA Chaired by Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times, United Kingdom