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28th January 2016 Geneva, Switzerland

by Julian Braithwaite

Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN and other international organisations in Geneva

Davos: Big Short or Indispensable Summit?

No other international gathering attracts such mythology.  The place where the world’s economic elite co-opts its political leadership.  Or the best place in the world to discuss and solve global problems.  The arguments for and against Davos rage every year.  But it’s as popular as ever. BIG SHORT Just before this year’s Davos gathering, Oxfam […]

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22nd January 2014

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by Nigel Baker

Ambassador to the Holy See (2011-2016)

Economics and the Pope

The World Economic Forum opens every year in January in the Swiss resort of Davos. Britain, as usual, will be sending a strong delegation led by the Prime Minister. It is one of the principal opportunities during the year when government, business, journalists and thinkers can gather to discuss the state of the world’s economy […]

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