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How many people realise that the central banks' great programme for reviving the global economy involves hand-picking which companies and sectors to help out?
As capitalism's image crumbles, many of the world's biggest companies are trying to give it new life by showing it can mean more than just making money.
Business leaders are beginning to take the global climate issue seriously by setting science-based targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
South Africa needs to make life as uncomfortable as possible for members of Zimbabwe's government.
An obsession with GDP growth fails to account for some of society's most pressing problems.
The World Economic Forum in Davos must change its ethos from 'idea sharing' to one of democratic accountability and justice.
The high-profile absence of several world leaders including Trump from the World Economic Forum has led some to suggest its influence is in decline. A philosopher who has seen Davos up close disagrees.
Gen Z is best positioned to influence business practices, rather than global climate agreements, where political gridlock appears to be the status quo.
There is a plethora of highly troubling issues facing the global economy that are caused, in part, by globalisation.
The removal of Jacob Zuma from power is to be welcomed but, it's not the answer to South Africa's problems.
Cyberattacks are in the top five global risks, behind extreme weather events and natural disasters. But global cooperation remains deeply problematic.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is making a political career out of burnishing his self-image and convincing the world he's a human rights leader. Do his actions match his words?
The Conversation scholars analyze a few of the key themes and speeches that punctuated the three-day gathering of global elites in the Alps.
Will young Germans remember their history – and will older German embrace the digital future?
French companies will no longer be 'forbidden to fail' and 'forbidden to succeed,' the French president tells the World Economic Forum.
The global elites are paying attention.
The shake up at South Africa's power utility, Eskom, sends a good signal about where Cyril Ramaphosa is taking the country.
A business and humanities scholar advises the president to pack three novels and a children's story for his long transatlantic flight to Switzerland aboard Air Force One.
The number of jobs might be going up but the real test will be whether wages rise too.
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