The World Economic Forum in Davos is an important event in the international calendar for business and politics.

ODI's director, Simon Maxwell, attends this annual forum and is writing a series of four blogs offering his reflections and predictions on how the debates will be taken forward in 2008.

ODI also participated in YouTube's The Davos Question, offering a range of views from Overseas Development Institute researchers to the question: 'What one thing do you think that countries, companies or individuals must do to make the world a better place in 2008?'