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The West’s uneasy experiment: Trump, Brexit fuel rising tide of Nationalism
As globalisation made the world flat again, there were those who benefitted and those who didn’t. And it seemed the longer it went on for, the greater the divide between the winners and losers got. The...
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Alec on Winslyn: SA’s A-team represented at Davos –‘give them a chance’
The hard work the South African team did at Davos cannot be understated, and it was a 180 degree turnaround from 2016. The mood was good, and not one ‘scandal’ came up for air. What follows however is...
View ArticleJoe Biden: 4IR hollows out middle class. 5 ways to reverse trend.
From the World Economic Forum Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 20 January 2016 – To counter the hollowing out of the middle class, renew people’s belief in the future, US Vice-President Joe Biden told...
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Top 10 trends for the world in 2015
By Al Gore In the coming year, we face a number of diverse and significant challenges: growing income inequality, heightened geostrategic tensions, the unsustainable use of our planet’s natural...
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WEF’s Davos heritage
Although now headquartered in the suburb of Cologny in Geneva, the World Economic Forum’s relationship with Davos stretches far beyond the staging of its annual meetings in the ski resort. Klaus...
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Philip Stephens: The Great Unwinding – why the risk business is booming
Ahead of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos this year, the body’s founder, Klaus Schwab, gathered his lieutenants to tell a group of media leaders about the focus points of what...
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Martin Wolf: Why Mr Market’s worries about China makes a lot of sense
In one of my earlier visits to the World Economic Forum in Davos, the chairman of a major South African bank pointed me towards sections of the programme moderated by Financial Times journalist Martin...
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Martin Wolf – SA must change direction fast or populist disaster inevitable
South Africans can never say they haven’t been warned. Oxford don RW Johnson’s best selling book argues the country has between two and five years before it collapses. This morning an even more...
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Bloomberg View: Renewable energy creating a much better world. In pictures.
By Noah Smith (Bloomberg View) — The new year is always a time for reflecting on what happened in the past year. But I think it’s worth stepping back and taking a look at the bigger trends shaping our...
View ArticleHindenburg gives a Masterclass – Adani flunks
Without betting any dollars in the Indian market, a short seller from New York managed to torpedo Adani Enterprises Ltd. This article is exclusive to Biznews Premium. Members please login here. Not...
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