In a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the software tycoon plans to call for a “creative capitalism” that uses market forces to address poor-country needs that he feels are being ignored. Gates’s Davos speech offers some insight into his goals as he prepares to retire in June from full-time work at Microsoft — where he will remain chairman — and focus on his philanthropy, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates included “The Mystery of Capital” and “Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity” and “The Bottom Billion. Gates in his speech will note several programs that “stretch the reach of market forces,” including a World Health Organization venture with an Indian vaccine maker to sell a meningitis vaccine in Africa for far less than existing vaccines. Gates found further evidence of an improving world in the online video of Hans Rosling, a Swedish professor of international health. read more

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