William Keegan: Much as I enjoy the rarefied air of Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, and indulging in what I laughingly call cross-country skiing, I did not go to the World Economic Forum in Davos last weekend.
January 2003
Davos still in the surreal world
Tony Juniper: Endless economic growth will not solve all the global problems.
Business leaders lament year to forget
Davos man is in a chastened mood these days. The annual shindig of business leaders and politicians in the Swiss alps is usually an opportunity for much backslapping about the inevitable triumph of market economies and the successes of the last year.
100,000 at anti-Davos protest
Around 100,000 anti-globalisation activists gathered last night for the World Social Forum in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre for a six-day protest against the World Economic Forum taking place simultaneously at the Swiss ski resort of Davos.