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?
A session at Davos highlighted the consequences of capitalism.
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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.
Investors are starting to demand businesses take action on climate change.
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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.
Vanina Farber, International Institute for Management Development (IMD) and Patrick Reichert, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
Gen Z is best positioned to influence business practices, rather than global climate agreements, where political gridlock appears to be the status quo.
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 walks past Ivanka Trump at the Women and Development event at the G20 summit in July 2017 in Germany.
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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?
Marine One arrives in the Alps.
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French companies will no longer be 'forbidden to fail' and 'forbidden to succeed,' the French president tells the World Economic Forum.
This year’s World Economic Forum in Davos honored musician and philanthropist Elton John for his contributions to upholding ‘human dignity.’
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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 latest data shows a big jump in jobs, but construction is slowing.