My top ten themes from Davos, part 1

The World Economic Forum has wrapped up and the small town of Davos is being returned to the skiers. I've developed my top ten themes from the five-day event. I'll post five today and five tomorrow.

1. The state of the world is not good.

The theme of Davos was Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild, which may sound a bit grandiose to some people.  I doubt many attendees think this now.  The world clearly needs fixing.

Figures cited at the Forum show we're a long way from being out of the woods on the...