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Across the planet, our 36 licensed
editions span fi ve continents,
28 languages and 24 time zones.
They all share the same mission:
celebrating entrepreneurial
capitalism in all its guises.WORLD
OFFORBES
“Political integration is utopia,”
says Dionisio Gutiérrez Mayorga,
the former head of Corporación
Multi Inversiones, while issuing
a call for Central American
countries and the Dominican
Republic to devise a joint Covid-19
recovery plan. “The only way out
is economic integration.”GUATEMALA
Nearly 75% of tourists,
making a $15 billion impact,
arrive in Greece’s summer
months—and analysts don’t
expect the decimated in-
dustry, one of the country’s
biggest economic drivers,
to recover before 2023.GREECE
With families stuck at home,
online business has never
been bett er for Budapest-
based toy shop Modell &
Hobby, which began as
a humble seller of model
trains in 1994. Sales are
now close to $10 million.HUNGARY
SOCAR Georgia Gas, which
Forbes Georgia ranks as the
country’s largest private
company, with 715,000 natu-
ral-gas customers, lowered
energy costs for companies
engaged in breadmaking
during the pandemic.Boxing champ Wladimir
Klitschko stepped out of
the ring for good in 2017
having earned tens of
millions of dollars.
He has since concentrated
on sports marketing gigs,
hotels and consulting—
fi nancial fi gures for these
endeavors are confi dential,
he jokes, “until I have made
$1 billion in sales.”A special “Femmes Forbes”
issue features 40 female
entrepreneurs, executives
and politicians, including
jewelry maker Valérie Mes-
sika (above) and European
Commission President
Ursula von der Leyen.GEORGIA
GERMANY
FRANCE
Květa Vostrá and Šimon
Vostrý, the Czech couple
who sold their call-center
transcription startup to
Twilio in 2018 for $21.8
million, say they may set
out on another business
venture in data or artifi cial
intelligence.CZECH REPUBLIC
Dimitar Jetchev, a Harvard-
educated Bulgarian cryp-
tographer and entrepreneur,
helped organize an online
Covid-19 fundraiser that
pulled in $66,000 for front-
line health workers’ PPE.BULGARIA
With Covid under control
in Cyprus, President Nicos
Anastasiades has his eyes
on gett ing people back
to his island nation: “Att ract-
ing foreign investments is
one of the most important
pillars of this government’s
economic policy,” he tells
Forbes Cyprus.From 200 applications,
Forbes Colombia chose
25 small businesses pivot-
ing smartly in response to
2020’s storm. Door, window
and handrail manufacturer
Aluvidrios began producing
“anti-Covid” furniture such
as antibacterial dispensers
and cubicle shields.Billionaire Hui Ka Yan
gave away nearly $430 mil-
lion in 2019, partly through
his real estate company,
China Evergrande. He also
donated $115 million in
February for coronavirus
research at Harvard
Medical School.CHINA
Forbes Brazil’s Power
Women list spotlights
Cristina Junqueira,
cofounder of Nubank, a
seven-year-old São Paulo–
based online bank with
20 million account holders.Forbes Bolivia’s cover
portrays a “rebirth
into a new reality,”
explains publisher Fred
Breede, with the world
changed immeasurably
by the pandemic.BOLIVIA
Youngest on Forbes Argen-
tina’s list of the country’s
wealthiest: 35-year-old Max
Cavazzani (net worth: $500
million). Downloads of his
Etermax games, including
Trivia Crack, increased
30% during the pandemic.Eglélia Mendes, 18,
has become the most
popular YouTuber in
Angola—with 217,000 follow-
ers—posting about taboo
topics such as abortion,
bullying and depression.OCTOBER 20 20BRAZIL
CYPRUS