EDITORIAL

Embracing Challenges with an Indomitable Will

By Hasina Parvin | 2nd Jun 2020

Editor’s Foreword

By Hasina Parvin,

CEO and Editor-in-Chief, World Growth Forums

World Growth Forums Magazine June 2020

Our external perceptions are an outcome of our internal tenets we have painstakingly developed over the years. How we react to a phenomenon or circumstance and their ensuing impacts entirely depends on our integrity of character, resoluteness of will and mental resistance to doubt or discouragement. It is believed that most successful people make the greatest progress during times of adversity, not during times of contentment.

The COVID-19 pandemic and the concurrent lockdown have been both unfortunate and fortunate for the mankind. While it has brought dread of the uncertain, it has also brought confidence that we are strong enough to survive. While it has forced us to stay indoors and practice social distancing, it has also forced us to explore our inner self and practice what we had been ignoring for years – finding our joy, harmony and the meaning of life with our family. While it has shaken the world economy, it has stirred the global community to act together and find common solutions for the human race. While it has taught us that everything in this world including life itself is impermanent, it has also taught us the true meaning of life and everything that comprises it.

What you take away from this testing situation depends on how you perceive it, what are your basic tenets and how you choose to react when you are cornered and forced to look inward to find solutions. If the purpose of humankind on Earth is to assimilate, create, manage, and live & let live, then God/Nature has offered us another chance to set whatever wrong we did in assimilating, creating, managing and living & letting to live.

I just hope this time we focus on peace; harmony; love & respect for each other, and emotions, capabilities & aspirations of all living things, rather than on fighting, winning and imposing ourselves on others – as individuals or nations.

Innumerable people the world over are brimmed with positivity and they are eager to share their infectious enthusiasm with all others so the entire globe becomes a better place. We are back with an exciting issue containing positive and immensely inspiring stories of how people and organizations have been relentlessly persevering against all odds to eventually emerge victorious.

In this issue, we bring to you United Nations’ analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on world economy and poverty, and how UN is attempting to mitigate the adverse impact of the pandemic.

World Bank is securing core public services, getting money directly to people and maintaining the private sector to limit the harm and help prepare for recovery.

Prince of Wales unveils a five-point plan to stimulate sustainable economic growth.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has led a call for global cooperation at the United Nations Virtual Summit in May 2020 aimed at mitigating the devastating social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Turkey and Russia have agreed to cooperate in the development of a coronavirus vaccine and plan to carry out joint clinical trials.

We continue to bring to you extraordinary stories of exceptional nation builder from around the world.

Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Law and Justice, Electronics and Information Technology and Communications, Government of India stresses on the Need to Tap Artificial Intelligence to Fight Covid.

His Excellency Hamad Buamim, President & CEO, Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry conducted online this year’s second roundtable ensuring business continuity and discussing the way forward to mitigate the impact of COVID-19.

iPayTotal Ltd., UK, is consistently creating success stories with millions of clients transforming every challenge into an opportunity to learn and grow.

Pathao, Bangladesh has revolutionized Bangladesh’s eCommerce logistics industry under the insightful guidance of its co-founders Hussain M Elius and Shifat Adnan.

The rising popularity of Sleepy Owl around the world presents a great opportunity in the Indian market for the cold brew coffee segment.

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