Associated Press: The world’s poor didn’t have seats at the elite World Economic Forum, but the political and corporate leaders gathered in Davos, Switzerland heard fervent appeals on their behalf — to not forget the “bottom billion” even as governments strain budgets to bail out their financial systems. “Last year, we gathered here to declare 2008 the year of the bottom billion,” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. “These are the poorest people who live on less than a dollar a day, who are …