Every year business leaders, politicians and campaigning groups from around the world don their snow boots and $1,000 Arc’teryx Macai coats and head for the Swiss ski resort of Davos. Just as New Year follows Christmas, it’s January and time for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting.
WEF has its fair share of critics – a hot air playground for the rich and powerful, out of touch with the realities of life on Main Street, obsessed with ‘global dialogue’ and the ‘rules-based order’. The detractors charge sheet has a familiar ring.
