EDITORIAL

Hardworking for Success; Not Dreaming About It

By Hasina Parvin | 2nd Aug 2021

Editor’s Foreword

By Hasina Parvin,

CEO and Editor-in-Chief, World Growth Forums

World Growth Forums Magazine August 2021

Successful people create a balance between thoughts and actions, as excess of either may reroute the journey toward a set target, or delay the achievements. This is the reason, some geniuses are known to the world as failures, while some others achieve surprisingly great heights. However, as no tenets have been developed to define or follow a set pattern of thoughts, actions, goals and the foregoing journey for sure success, each human has to develop and follow it on his/ her own. This is not as formidable as it sounds, as once you have clarity of goals, other requisite components fall in place naturally, immediately or gradually. And then of course, if your resolve is resolute, the entire godkind starts focusing on helping you in what becomes a divine journey.

On top of that, the world is round and moving. So, nothing falls off, and remains within, till eternity; and what was at one point goes to another, while something else fills its place. The laws of nature or godkind take care that the most powerful thoughts and actions – unfortunately, no distinction is made between good and evil – lead to fruition.

Because of the fact that it’s a delicate system, human disruptions of even minor intensity may result in overwhelmingly divergent destinations. Hence, the role and importance of discipline in human life, which has been underlined since time immemorial.

Steadfast in its philosophy, endeavours and discipline, World Growth Forums has continued in its long and firm strides of growth and expansion, consistently crossing more national borders and holding hands with great personalities from around the world, while deeply focused on its vision of creating positivities and possibilities for all to grow together.

In our current issue of World Growth Forums Magazine, we discuss how climate change is widespread, rapid and intensifying, and some trends are now irreversible, at least during the present time frame, according to the latest much-anticipated Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released recently.

Water has always influenced where we live. The World Bank’s recently released flagship publication on water shows that it is a lack of water, rather than too much, that has a greater impact on migration.

The Board of Governors of the IMF has approved a general allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) equivalent to USD 650 billion (about XDR 456 billion) to boost global liquidity.

Numerous studies, including the WEF’s 2020 Future of Jobs Report, have documented the ways that the pandemic has aggravated inequalities in the global workplace. We discuss that companies want to hire rapidly and in large numbers. So, they are turning to Artificial Intelligence-driven technology such as resume-screening programs. However, unless used carefully, algorithms could multiply inequalities based on gender, age and race, which have already been exacerbated by the pandemic.

The Director General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has called for a two-month moratorium on administering booster shots of COVID-19 vaccines as a means of reducing global vaccine inequality and preventing the emergence of new coronavirus variants.

Under our series on WGF Women of Extraordinary Excellence of 2020–21 and Top Nation Builders of 2020–21, we bring to you positive stories of triumph, and good & decisive actions and developments around the world.

Halimah Yacob, President of Singapore, has given the go-ahead to fund more than $2 billion in additional support to cushion the impact of Covid-19 on Singaporeans and businesses.

Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Prime Minister of Iceland – participating in a UN conference on the impact of COVID-19 on gender equality and the status of women – has highlighted the increased risk of domestic violence, the pivotal role women play in the healthcare system and the additional economic and social pressures women are facing during the pandemic.

Hakainde Hichilema, the new President of Zambia, has won the tense presidential elections by getting more than 2.8 million votes to outgoing President Edgar Lungu’s 1.8 million votes, achieving one of the biggest electoral wins in Zambia’s history.

Yoshihide Suga, Prime Minister of Japan, and his government were able to fulfill the country’s responsibility as the host nation owing to everyone’s understanding and co-operation.

Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, and Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India, has shared the central government’s plan towards the follow-up scheme to the existing Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation, which will cover all urban areas.

World Growth Forums understands that there are exclusive and extraordinary nation builders who possess peerless excellence, through which they have been consistently pioneering ingenious pathways of growth in the country of their primary profession, and then in the world as a chain reaction.

Honoring such rare excellence at an exclusive Platform of Excellence, World Growth Forums is committed to positive growth of the world. In partnership with the exclusive and extraordinary nation builders, World Growth Forums desires all willing and deserving heads & hands to converge to create a better world.

Hasina Parvin
CEO & Editor-in-Chief, World Growth Forums, India
@WGForums