Commonwealth Business Conference Public Face and Private Agenda D N Ghosh GLOBALISATION is no longer an exciting theme for international business conferences as it used to be in the early 1990s. The grand alliance between international business and domestic politics for pushing the process of global integration through a massive dose of privatisation and outward-oriented liberalised policies appears to be cracking at a few sensitive spots. Of late even the diehard establishment of the World Economic Forum at Davos has mellowed down.