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Survey says most in support of synergy
By Chen Weihua in Brussels (China Daily)
Updated: 2019-01-21 07:43
A global survey released by the World Economic Forum on Sunday reported that the public overwhelmingly favors multilateral cooperation and rejects the notion that a country's best interest is achieved at the expense of others.
A
clear
majority of people in all regions of the world said they believe that
cooperation
between nations is either extremely or very important. It also found that a large majority of those surveyed
reject
the notion that national improvement is a
zero-sum
game.
Different parts of the world, however,
differ
in their views. Asked how important it is that countries work together toward a common goal, a global average of
76 percent
said they believe it is either extremely important or very important.
These
sentiments
are felt most strongly in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, where 88 percent share the same view. At the other end of the
scale
, only 61 percent of Western Europeans and 70 percent of North Americans say they consider cooperation to be extremely or very important.
The rate is 86 percent in China, 81 percent in Brazil, 67 percent in the United States, 57 percent in Britain, and 46 percent in France.
The research, covering 10,000 people from every part of the world, including 843 in China, was commissioned to SAP and Qualtrics ahead of the WEF annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, from Jan 22-25.
Asked whether their country has a responsibility to help other countries in the world, South Asians again
registered
the highest levels of concurrence, with 94 percent answering positively
compared to
a global average of 72 percent.
North Americans and Western Europeans were the least
effusive
, with only 61 percent and 63 percent respectively answering in the
affirmative
. The percentage in China is 80 percent compared with only 57 percent in the US.
Role of technology
WEF organizers said one finding that will prove valuable to the discussions during the annual meeting is the fact that, while most people still believe in the power of international partnership, they share a much less positive view of their own country when it comes to social progress.
"The combination of climate change, income inequality, technology and geopolitics pose an existential threat to humanity. What we see with this research is that, while the international community's capacity for concerted action appears constrained, the overwhelming desire of the global public is for leaders to find new ways to work together that will allow them to cooperate on these critical shared challenges we all face," said Klaus Schwab, WEF's founder and executive chairman.
When it comes to the role of technology in society, the number of people that say they believe technology does more good than harm outnumber those who say they think it does more harm than good by a factor of nearly four to one. However, when asked whether they agree with the statement that technology companies are more interested in making the world a better place rather than simply making money, responses differed markedly depending on geography.
The region of the world where respondents had the most positive view of technology is sub-Saharan Africa, where 66 percent of those surveyed agreed that technology companies want to make the world a better place.
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