Today, Sarajevo hosts the Sixth Economic Forum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which focuses on the challenges facing civilization in the post-pandemic, global crisis and the resilience of sustainable development, and the role of green finance in achieving sustainable development goals in the Western Balkans and the world.
The Economic Forum of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2022 was opened by Jasmina Selimovic, Dean of the Faculty of Economics in Sarajevo. The keynote speaker of the 2022 Forum is Ismail Serageldin, vice-president of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center and former vice-president of the World Bank (1992-2000).
This year’s Forum is conceived in two sessions. In the first panel on global challenges, together with Ismail Serageldin, Ismahane Elouafi, Chief Scientist at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, James Stewart, Chairman of the Board of Raiffeisen BANK d. d. Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Jasmin Mahmuzic, Director of the Banking Agency of the Federation of BiH. The moderator of the first session is Zlatko Lagumdzija, professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Sarajevo.
Lagumdzija said the first report on the Western Balkans on self-sustainable development would be officially presented during the forum.
“This is the first report of its kind made for this region and it covers all countries, with the exception of Kosovo because they did not have enough data. Here you have a picture of each of our countries, where we are when it comes to self-sustainable development “, said Lagumdzija, adding:
“What is important to say when it comes to self-sustainable development in the last five years, until the outbreak of the pandemic, the world was on the rise and the index of self-sustainable development was improving. In the last two years, there has been stagnation and decline. That decline is not as dramatic as the rise. However, even that ascent that the planet had, it was insufficient to continue to meet the goals until 2030. We, as a planet, are currently driving towards the wall without brakes and we have accelerated a bit “, said Lagumdzija, adding that today there will be talks about recommendations on how to secure world funding.
He spoke about Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Western Balkans.
“BiH and the Western Balkans, we are ranked better in terms of self-sustainable development than how rich we are. One of the goals of self-sustainable development is to eradicate hunger and we are doing well because you are good for the world if you have three BAM a day per capita “, said Lagumdzija, explaining that” BiH, if six countries in the region are taken into account, is the regional average “. . In other words, there are worse than BiH, but there are also better ones, Federalna writes.
