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Hopes soar at downturn for anti-Davos event

Published: 28 January, 2009, 12:32


Amid economic meltdown, organisers of the World Social Forum – the polar opposite of the Swiss World Economic Forum – believe that their alternative vision has new resonance in Amazonian Brazil.

 
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