{"id":73522,"date":"2017-10-27T02:42:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T09:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/davos-in-the-desert-offers-glimpse-of-how-saudi-arabia-is-changing"},"modified":"2017-10-27T02:42:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T09:42:27","slug":"davos-in-the-desert-offers-glimpse-of-how-saudi-arabia-is-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/davos-in-the-desert-offers-glimpse-of-how-saudi-arabia-is-changing","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Davos in the desert\u2019 offers glimpse of how Saudi Arabia is changing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/davos-in-the-desert-offers-glimpse-of-how-saudi-arabia-is-changing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Women and men sat together Tuesday as some 3,000 business people, investors and officials from dozens of countries gathered in the capital of highly conservative Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed \u201cDavos in the desert\u201d \u2014 a reference to the annual World Economic Forum in Switzerland \u2014 the conference is the first of its kind.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>IMF director Christine Lagarde (left) and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (center) attend the Future Investment Initiative conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday. <i class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>Faisal Al Nasser \/ Reuters.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/davos-desert-offers-glimpse-changing-saudi-arabia-n813636\">https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/davos-desert-offers-glimp...ia-n813636<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women and men sat together Tuesday as some 3,000 business people, investors and officials from dozens of countries gathered in the capital of highly conservative Saudi Arabia. Dubbed \u201cDavos in the desert\u201d \u2014 a reference to the annual World Economic Forum in Switzerland \u2014 the conference is the first of its kind. IMF director Christine [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}