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Ramaphosa has his work cut out at Davos to shift mindset of investors
The world’s economic and political elite will soon gather at the snowy Swiss alpine resort of Davos to engage on ways of creating a shared future in a fractured world, the official theme of the 48th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. Much attention will be on geopolitics and prospects for global economic growth. The stand-off between North Korea and the US, the deteriorating relations between Iran and the US and the global controversy created by President Donald Trump’s declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel loom large on the geopolitical front, as do the global migration crisis and the treatment of immigrants in host countries. These issues are divisive in an era characterised by a conspicuous lack of unifying visionary leadership at a global and regional level, which in turn is a reflection of the conspicuous lack of common and shared norms and values among the current generation of world leaders. This is shameful. Creating a better world for all requires lead...
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