Headline January 28, 2018/ '' 'DAVOS -STUDENTS- DANCE' ''

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THE POPULARITY of the event is thanks to professor Laurie Santos, whose class ''The Psychology of The Good Life'' at Yale University attracts hordes.

A roundtable on solitude, an empathy conference, a meditation workshop: the annual gathering in Davos sometimes appears more like a group therapy session, nudging global elites towards happiness.

''I am sorry. It is full,'' a hostess tells dozen of suit-clad business types who have been waiting to take part in a roundtable on ''the neuroscience of happiness''.

The World Economic Forum, which each year gathers thousands of business tycoons, political leaders and pundits in the swanky Swiss ski resort town in Davos, has dedicated a series of sessions to the quest for happiness, well-being and mindfulness.

Outside the closed doors of Yale happiness conference, Enrique Zambrano, who heads the Mexican company Proeza, told AFP he aims to help his employees develop ''as a whole'', not just as workers.

$75,000 : If the employees are more satisfied and more engaged they are more productive,'' he said, stressing that there are simple, fundamental truths that can help in his quest, like paying his staff properly.

''You cannot be happy if you don't have enough to eat.'

Participants at these conferences are encouraged to share their feelings or discuss their family life. Does, targeting some of the planet's wealthiest individuals indicate that money may not buy happiness.''

An often cited study by Nobel Economic Prize Laureate Angus Deaton and others showed that making more than $75,000 per year - an amount believed to cover all  basic needs - does not increase an individual's happiness.

OVER THE YEARS, success has bred success for the WEF as many of the world's movers and shakers vie to rub shoulders in the Swiss Alps at panel discussion and apres-ski socialising.

Never regional meetings have joined the Davos calendar.

The WEF's ''fragile authority'' relies on proving ''that if you want to be part of of the global nobility,  then you have to be here,'' Sorbom said.

She said the organisation appears to offer something lacking in other international bodies : a venue where the heads of business and government can meet'' and possibly come up with some good ideas.''

''But it has troublesome aspects,'' she added.

With dozens of heads of state and government coming to Davos each year, the WEF can be seen as a body ''without a legal mandate to influence global governance yet with an ambition to do so,'' Garsten and Sorbom write.

Oliver Classen of the Swiss NGO Public-Eye, which has spearheaded protests and other campaigns to counter the Davos meeting, said the WEF has always been ''fully dependent'' on the 1,000 companies that support the foundation.

Membership in the Forum ranges from the equivalent of $60,000 [53,000 euros] to $600,000, fees that allow company to attend Davos and other meetings throughout the year.

''Schwab seems to have a firm belief that making people talk to each other is an objective that justifies pretty much everything,'' Classen said.

''What he does not realise is that when the large majority of those people have commercial interests then it is about deal-striking and nothing else.''

Monck, however, said that for WEF ''multi-stockholder engagement means respecting the opinions and interests of others.''   

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