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Davos: high altitude, low impact

The World Economic Forum has become less about finding real solutions and more about being seen to be finding them

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Jan 21, 2024
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In the frost-kissed town of Davos, where the world’s glitterati converged this week for the 54th annual World Economic Forum under the guise of shaping the world's future, something sounded thinner than the altitude: It was the air of relevance, of touch with the terra firma where the rest of us reside.

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