Davos: The global economy may be in a better shape after its worst-ever crisis but it is no time to relax, and governments as well as business leaders must persist with job creation, income and gender diversification as also to meet aspirations of the youth to keep up the growth momentum.

This is the message from over 1,600 business leaders, around 50 government heads and over a 1,000 leaders from other walks of life, who had congregated at this Swiss Alpine ski resort for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.

The meeting, which began on January 22 and ended on Sunday, saw countries like Russia, Indonesia, South Africa and Malaysia making a strong pitch for attracting investments worth trillions of dollars, while China emerged as a major growtheconomy.

The International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde asked the countries across the globe and their leaders to follow a 'do not relax' principle and not let any complacency to come into their efforts.

"I will pursue with 'do not relax' principle. The forecast is for a very fragile recovery in 2013 and that is why I will emphasise on do not relax," Lagarde said. She also termed the recovery as "fragile and timid".

Swiss banking giant UBS Chairman Axel Weber said he fears that 2013 could be a repeat of 2012, as the last year had also begun well but things started deteriorating later.

"In my view the mood at Davos borders on complacency. The mood has been good, in brackets too good to be true," he warned.

Reflecting similar sentiment, Secretary