{"id":85848,"date":"2026-01-23T14:44:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/does-the-world-economic-forum-still-matter-in-a-fractured-global-economy-counting-the-cost\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T14:44:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:44:58","slug":"does-the-world-economic-forum-still-matter-in-a-fractured-global-economy-counting-the-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/does-the-world-economic-forum-still-matter-in-a-fractured-global-economy-counting-the-cost\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the World Economic Forum still matter in a fractured global economy? | Counting the Cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual pilgrimage of the world&#8217;s political and corporate elite to the World Economic Forum in Davos has come at <!--more--> a critical point.<\/p>\n<p>Geopolitical tensions are at fever pitch.<\/p>\n<p>The US is led by a president openly sceptical of multi-lateral cooperation and open trade.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump is using tariffs as a tool for economic and political leverage, threatening to dismantle the global order.<\/p>\n<p>Critics say the summit is long on talk and short on action.<\/p>\n<p>But supporters say keeping rivals talking may help contain some of the world&#8217;s biggest problems.<\/p>\n<p>And who pays to rebuild Gaza?<\/p>\n<p>Plus, Iran&#8217;s economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>#wef2026 #worldeconomicforum #davos #donaldtrump #business #economy #aljazeeraenglish #globaleconomy #globalpolitics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual pilgrimage of the world&#8217;s political and corporate elite to the World Economic Forum in Davos has come at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}