India up 21 places in WEF gender gap report

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Bad loans, infrastructure, ICT hurdles hurt India's competitiveness: WEF

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	WEF launched the Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE) in January 2017, which is a global public private partnership seeking to scale circular economy innovations.</div>

World Economic Forum (WEF) is an independent international organisation committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. The World Economic Forum is funded by 1,000 member companies, generally global enterprises.

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India up 21 places in WEF gender gap report

Bad loans, infrastructure, ICT hurdles hurt India's competitiveness: WEF

Four Indians, three PIOs on WEF's young leaders list