With the global economy at a crossroads, policy-makers must balance the need for action on growth and inflation with structural imperatives on promoting human development and ensuring an orderly energy transition.
From precision learning to workforce planning, what are the innovative business and policy approaches to facilitate reskilling, upskilling and job transitions?
As interest in technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing and biotechnology pivot from early investment to practical application, public and private organisations seek their real impact on productivity, organisation and growth.
Each year, $1.8 trillion is spent on global health making minimal to no contributions to positive health results. While the use of data and analytics to measure patient outcomes and cost drivers is accelerating, persistent gaps remain.
Value added by global manufacturing industries is forecast to achieve an annual growth of 4% over the coming five years, due to new technologies, supply chain shifts, environmental regulations and changes in consumer demand.
Geopolitical conflict and competition are increasing at the very moment greater cooperation is needed to address acute and longstanding security, climate, economic and technology challenges.
Amid signs of potential economic optimism, a complex array of risks threatens to derail progress. From tackling climate emergencies to rising geopolitical tensions and the accelerating infodemic, how can global collaboration and innovation protect and propel economic growth?
While global GDP has soared in recent decades, human activity has led to a 40% reduction in natural capital from 1992 to 2014. Valuing economic models that prioritize critical assets of clean air, water, nutritious food and human well-being is imperative.
For more than a decade, the World Economic Forum has been surveying decision-makers and experts on exponential technologies on the cusp of transforming economies and societies.
While some supply chains have held up better than feared since the pandemic, in the years following 2008 global trade growth has stagnated as governments and companies have progressively been seeking to diversify.
Biotechnology has brought about surprising and diverse applications over past years, from 3D printing of human tissues and organs to clean wastewater.
The discovery of the world's first functional graphene semiconductor, along with significant advancements in neuromorphic computing and the release of AI Superchips are poised to accelerate computing power.
China, as the world's second-largest economy and one of the most biodiverse countries in the world, has an important role to play in leading the transition to a carbon-neutral and nature-positive future. The country's robust economic and technological progress over the past 40 years, raising 800 million people out of poverty, has been accompanied by significant strides in tackling biodiversity loss and environmental degradation
At the midpoint of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, only 15% of the targets are on track to be achieved as per the latest UN estimates. This assessment underscores the urgent need for a paradigm shift in how we think about these goals and financing new growth pathways.
As of 2024, there were an estimated 67.7 million unemployed youth aged between 15 and 24 worldwide, with emerging economies particularly affected.
Countries are continuing to unlock the potential of AI and address pressing challenges by exploring how infrastructure, investment and policy intersect.
Fragmentation stands to reduce global economic output by as much as 7% in the long term, with acute implications for developing economies, trade and investment flows, asset prices and the cost of capital across jurisdictions.
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