Ireland has received good marks from the IMF over the ways it redistributed taxes to prevent a potential social disaster during the financial crisis, but the country misses out on top marks on the ways it tackled youth unemployment.

Ireland’s only female delegate to attend Davos has praised the internet for giving her a voice.

This year’s Davos gathering could rival the US version of TV reality show The Apprentice, which helped propel Donald Trump into the White House, for ratings-boosting excitement because it’s risky and because the stakes are much higher.

The great and the good of Davos agree they have a problem with populism. Finding a solution is the hard part.

The global business elite, each coughing up over €20,000 each, are gathering for their annual shindig at the up-market Swiss resort of Davos.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny failed to meet insurers to force them to compensate flood victims because he was “promoting” Ireland’s economic recovery while on expensive visits to Britain and Switzerland.

Intelligence officers, former US Secret Service agents, cybercrime fighters, and members of international police forces will convene in Dungarvan, Co Waterford, next month for a biennial Global Intelligence Forum.

Conversations at Davos typically focus on the thousands of wealthy and powerful folk who trek to the Alps every January for the World Economic Forum.

Given the skewed imbalance of a world where the rich become richer and the poor are made poorer by the day, there is an inescapable perception that decisions made at the elite Davos club in Switzerland stand little chance of becoming reality. So, it is valid to pose the question: what is the point of 40 heads of state and government, Taoiseach Enda Kenny among them, gathering for the 45th World Economic Forum?

Barclays chief executive Antony Jenkins and HSBC chairman Douglas Flint said the financial system’s safety has improved in the past five years, splitting delegates at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Ireland cannot exit the bailout programme this year if EU leaders do not honour their commitments on the Anglo promissory notes and separating sovereign debt from bank debt, Taoiseach Enda Kenny said today.

Chinese investors are trying to follow the rules when spending money abroad, the head of one of China's biggest private equity firms says, as global leaders increasingly look to the country to prop up the world economy.

There is a palpable sense of hope at the annual Davos World Economic Forum that the eurozone is edging away from the brink of catastrophe.

If Diana was around today, she would be a beautiful 50-year-old with 10 million followers on Twitter, still making the headlines and championing her causes, writes Tina Brown

The risks of an uneven global economic recovery dominated the agenda today as the World Economic Forum opened in the Swiss Alps.

The police commander in charge of security for the Davos World Economic Forum has killed himself on the eve of the conference.

The global financial chaos cast its shadow over a gloomy opening of the World Economic Forum today.

People are gathering on the streets of Dublin in protest over the Davos World Economic Forum, in Switzerland.

Leading economists had mixed views today about whether a recession could spread around the world.