When Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, hosted the first summit in Davos in 1971, the global community was on the precipice of profound change.

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Yet, government and business leaders attending the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, better known as Davos, are flying privately in record numbers this year, according to the Air Charter ...

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