GLOBAL SHIFTS
Developing world must brace itself for Trump tremors and aftershocks
The annual World Economic Forum gathering of the (largely western) globalised elite takes place from January 17-20. Davos faces a turbulent world in 2017. A selective listing of issues encompasses globally significant countries and regions in transition, notably Donald Trump’s impending US presidency, Brexit, the EU, Russia, China, Japan and the Middle East; and global driving forces, especially the "fourth industrial revolution", cross-border production chains, the largely western backlash to globalisation and cyber warfare. These times would test any government and country, but SA faces its own domestic challenges that, in the best case, will inhibit its responsiveness and, in the worst case, exacerbate the domestic political effect of these global currents. A backlash against economic globalisation is the thread running through what some commentators are calling the crisis of the industrialised West. It manifests in rejection of economic, cultural and political openness, particul...
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