News: CSF, WEF join hands to conduct executive opinion survey
Name of the Newspaper: Pakistan Observer
Date of publication: Saturday, 01 March, 2008
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ISLAMABAD-The Competitiveness Support Fund (CSF) has engaged the students of the Economics Department at the Quaid-e-Azam University with the aim of creating a network between the leading business community and the future business leaders.

Amir Jahangir from the Competitiveness Support Fund told a group of the students and faculty members of the University at an interactive Session here on Friday.

He briefed that students about the Competitiveness Support Fund (CSF) as the partner institution of the World Economic Forum (WEF) is carrying out the Executive Opinion Survey (EOS) 2008 in Pakistan for the Global Competitiveness Report 2008 2009.

He said that the Competitiveness Support Fund, a joint initiative of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ministry of Finance, Government of Pakistan, has proposed a unique strategy to the World Economic Forum to engage the academia in conducting the Executive Opinion Surveys.

The CSF strategy has also been appreciated by the Harvard University and is being considered to being one of the most innovative strategies from any of the 153 World Economic Forum partner institutes, he remarked.

The meeting include discussions on the Global Competitiveness Report 2007-2008, which is published each year by the WEF and benchmarks 131 economies over the 12 competitive pillars.

The Students were asked to describe their future vision and their potential impact on business community to which most of them had set plans of working in prestigious multinationals, international development agencie and research positions - all acknowledging the potential impact they would be having if they had stronger networks with the business community as well as a deeper insight into the issues of competitiveness.-APP