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January 19, 2019

Davos faces Brazilian populism and Brexit

LONDON: Government and business leaders trek to the freezing Swiss Alps next week for the annual Davos conclave, taking heat from a populist wave encapsulated in Brazil’s new far-right leader, trade conflicts and the looming onset of Brexit.US President Donald Trump stole the show at last year’s World Economic Forum with a tax-cutting agenda that harmonised with the corporate priority-list, even if many in the audience were agog at his more outspoken rhetoric on trade and the media.But...