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2014 World Economic Forum Called For A Solution To Youth Unemployment Problem

2014 World Economic Forum Called For A Solution To Youth Unemployment Problem
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Former Associate Business Editor, The Huffington Post

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As we gear up for this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, we're looking back at some of the biggest issues talked about at last year's conference.

Many of the world's most influential thought leaders called for a new approach to tackle youth unemployment, an issue that leaves more than 200 million young people out of work world wide. Conference attendees like Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent and Education for Employment President and CEO James McAuliffe sat down with HuffPost Live last year to talk about the issue.

"What's encouraging about this Davos is that the conversation has really moved on the issue of global youth employment, to just talking about challenge, raising awareness of the issue, to actually concretely talking about the potential solutions," McAuliffe said in 2014. "I think we're moving in the right direction."

The World Economic Forum annual meeting will take place from January 21-24.

Before You Go

Famous People At Davos 2015
Al Gore(01 of21)
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Andrea Bocelli(02 of21)
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Larry Summers(03 of21)
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Anne-Marie Slaughter(04 of21)
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Will.i.am(05 of21)
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Angela Merkel(06 of21)
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Marissa Mayer(07 of21)
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Satya Nadella(08 of21)
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Sheryl Sandberg(09 of21)
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Fareed Zakaria(10 of21)
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Katie Couric(11 of21)
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Pharrell Williams(12 of21)
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Bill Gates(13 of21)
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Melinda Gates(14 of21)
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Prince Andrew(15 of21)
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Mary Barra(16 of21)
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Tony Blair(17 of21)
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Eric Schmidt(18 of21)
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Jack Ma(19 of21)
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John Kerry(20 of21)
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry makes a speech at the Paris city hall, Friday, Jan. 16, 2015. Kerry is meeting top officials in France to express America's solidarity with the French people after last week's deadly terrorist attacks. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Klaus Schwab(21 of21)
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