World Economic Forum

Trade tensions top global risks as Taoiseach set to join Davos elite

Report highlights ‘lack of collective will’ to tackle issues

Machines to do ‘more than half’ of workplace tasks by 2025

World Economic Forum predicts 75 million jobs will be displaced but 133 million created

Selfie protocol and staying on message in and away from the Davos spotlight

World Economic Forum backdrop is a buoyant global economy and stock-market highs

Trump predicts ‘tremendous increase’ in trade between UK and US

US president in Davos put focus on trading and military relationship between US-UK

Globalisation faces ‘major crisis’ Macron warns in Davos

EU needs common foreign policy to combat protectionism, says Merkel

Davos diary: ‘Global elite’ battles with record snowfall

Trump not due until Friday, yet imminent presence already felt

Trump will dominate Davos as no US leader has before

Provocateur-in-chief practised at irking elites who celebrate global order

Trump to attend World Economic Forum at Davos

Presidents have rarely attended forum due to optics of rubbing shoulders with the rich

Ireland: No country for working women?

Childcare costs and high taxes contribute to low workforce participation rates for women

Rwanda eclipses Ireland on closing gender gap

World Economic Forum cites reduction in number of female Ministers

Ireland rises to 23rd place in competitiveness rankings

Country is now ranked the eighth most competitive economy in the euro zone

Ornua involved in groundbreaking blockchain transaction

Group completes world’s first trade transaction using technology behind Bitcoin

Blockchain to become ‘beating heart’ of global financial system

More than 90 central banks considering using bitcoin software, says report

Is your business ready for robots?

Mundane tasks could be a thing of the past if managers are ready to harness latest technological advances

Oxfam says 1% of population own half of world’s wealth

International report reveals that 62 richest own same as poorest 50% of population

Ireland ranks 5th when it comes to closing the gender gap

New study shows women now being paid what men were back in 2006

Road Warrior - better internet connectivity for Europe, Ethiopian Airlines join WEF, new hotels in Belfast, figures from Delta

Inmarsat and Deutsche Telecom improve in-air connectivity, three new hotels for Belfast, Delta carry 614,159 passengers in one day

Ireland ranked in 25th place for exploitation of ICT

Singapore named best country in World Economic Forum survey

Davos: the new global context with a free lunch or cocktail on the side

Attending the World Economic Forum can be a costly business, but does it have to be?

ECB to unveil €50bn-a-month plan to spark euro-zone recovery

Stimulus programme dominates opening day of Davos economic forum in Switzerland

ECB can do groundwork on growth, says Finnish PM

Alexander Stubb would welcome QE ‘with a smile’

Ireland ranked in eighth place in gender gap rankings

New survey says it will take 81 years to stamp out workplace inequality between men and women

Confronting inequality - the challenge of our time

Cantillon: They’re just like us at Davos, honest

Though very few of the lofty thinkers are young women ... or women...or young

Asia Briefing: Chinese premier ready to get his hands dirty

Li Keqiang promises to address some of the key problems facing the Chinese economy, although some of these challenges look immense

New ways emerge to tackle stubborn gender imbalance in computer science

Exposure to coding at a young age and initiatives such as Rail Girls can get more women into tech careers

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