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Davos 2017

July 2017

  • The Audio Long Read
    Globalisation: the rise and fall of an idea that swept the world – podcast

  • Cover illustration for globalisation long read

    The long read
    Globalisation: the rise and fall of an idea that swept the world

  • Nao V5 Evolution humanoid robot, created by Aldebaran Robotics, France, c.2016 Robots exhibition at the Science Museum, 8 February - 3 September 2017

    Fourth industrial revolution
    Artificial intelligence has arrived, but Australian businesses are not ready for it

    Despite spending the world’s second-largest amount on automation, Australian companies are not ready for robots – or for retraining staff
  • Larry Elliott

    Economics viewpoint
    The new robot revolution will take the boss's job, not the gardener's

    Larry Elliott
  • Theresa May

    Brexiters expect to leave the EU on a free trade ‘crusade’. What if they are wrong?

  • Planet earth showing  Europe at night

    Globalisation once made the world go around. Is it about to grind to a halt?

    The denizens of Davos reassured themselves that free trade would go on in the Trump era, but they had for years done little about the losers such a system creates
  • Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger delivers remarks by video link on the closing day of the World Economic Forum, on January 20, 2017 in Davos. / AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINIFABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images

    Business live
    Davos 2017: Hammond fires Brexit warning; Kissinger says Trump must help rebuild world order - as it happened

    UK chancellor tells WEF that Britain will reinvent itself if it has to, as Davos ends with comments from veteran diplomat Henry Kissinger
  • World Economic Forum 2017 in Davos<br>epa05721303 A World Economic Forum (WEF) logo is seen on a window covered in snow near the Congress Centre where preparations are underway for the 47th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, 16 January 2017. The annual meeting brings together business leaders, international political leaders and select intellectuals, to discuss the pressing issues facing the world. The overarching theme of the 2017 meeting, which takes place from 17 to 20 January, is 'Responsive and Responsible Leadership'. EPA/LAURENT GILLIERON

    Davos 2017: what we learned at the WEF

    Banks got a warm welcome, Britain got a cool reception and climate change fears abounded at the World Economic Forum
    • Philip Hammond blames Tony Blair for Brexit vote

    • George Soros: Theresa May won't last and Trump is 'would-be dictator'

    • Social equality
      Davos 2017: business leaders need to stop navel gazing and act responsibly

      Mark Ingram
  • FILE PHOTO -- Business magnate George Soros arrives to speak at the Open Russia Club in London<br>FILE PHOTO -- Business magnate George Soros arrives to speak at the Open Russia Club in London, Britain June 20, 2016. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor/File Photo

    Business live
    Davos 2017: Soros says UK in denial over Brexit, and May won't last – Day Three as it happened

    Billionaire George Soros tells a dinner in Davos that inflation will drive down living standards in UK, and that prime minister Theresa May won’t last long
  • Luxury yachts moored in Monaco harbour.

    Davos 2017: Oxfam attacks failing global tax avoidance battle

    World Economic Forum debate hears how fight to make companies ‘pay their fair share’ is being undermined by race to cut corporation tax rates
  • Theresa May at the World Economic Forum in Davos: no easy ride.

    May and Hammond fail to win new fans among tough Davos crowd

    While the PM tried to strike a conciliatory chord, Europe will view the chancellor’s harsher tone as an empty threat
  • The ski resort of Davos is seen at sun rise on the the second day of the World Economic Forum, on January 18, 2017. With the world's elite holding its breath until Donald Trump becomes the next US president, outgoing Vice-President Joe Biden addresses the World Economic Forum in Davos / AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINIFABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images

    Business live
    Davos 2017: Joe Biden criticises Russia; Al Gore on climate change - as it happened

  • Outgoing US vice president Joe Biden addresses the assembly on the second day of the World Economic Forum, on January 18, 2017 in Davos. 







With the world's elite holding its breath until Donald Trump becomes the next US president, outgoing Vice-President Joe Biden addresses the World Economic Forum in Davos / AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINIFABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images

    Joe Biden tells Davos: top 1% must do more – video

  • The IMF’s Christine Lagarde speaking on a panel on the middle classes at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

    Middle classes in crisis, IMF's Christine Lagarde tells Davos 2017

  • China’s Xi Jinping: ‘No one will emerge as a winner in a trade war.’

    Xi Jinping signals China will champion free trade if Trump builds barriers

  • Swiss Federal President Doris Leuthard (left) poses with China’s President Xi Jinping (right) during the launch of the Swiss-Sino year of tourism next to a panda ice sculpture on the side line of the 47th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, 17 January 2017.

    Business live
    Davos 2017: Chinese president Xi warns against trade wars - Day 1 as it happened

  • Anthony Scaramucci

    Top Trump adviser says post-Brexit trade deal feasible within a year

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