The Grey Tsunami - How to Reap a Healthy Longevity Dividend
Teaser: In January the World Economic Forum at Davos released a major report, “Global Population Ageing: Peril or Promise?”, forecasting an economic and social firestorm - a world growing older at a...
View ArticleThe End of Capitalism -- So What's Next?
Teaser: This year's World Economic Forum in Davos saw intense debate about the future of capitalism. Many participants were asking whether capitalism, with all of its excesses, still has a place in...
View ArticleForget the usual tired debates about Africa, it's changing – for the better
Teaser: Afro-optimism versus Afro-pessimism is a misplaced debate. Africa has changed. The Nairobi of my childhood and the Dar es Salaam where I began my professional career have both changed...
View ArticlePersisting divides and political deadlock are jeopardizing prosperity
Teaser: History has shown that those countries with a winning combination of competitiveness strengths tend to be the ones that are best prepared to ride out economic crises and provide rising and...
View ArticleVision needed to weather economic storm
Teaser: The global economy is experiencing deep systemic and structural changes fuelled by unprecedented fiscal imbalances, exorbitant bonuses, widening income gaps, excessive debt, endemic...
View Article不确定时期的全球竞争力
Teaser: 今年年初，全球性经济复苏似乎已成定局，国际货币基金组织曾经预言2001 年和2012 年的经济增长会实现4.3% 和4.5%。然而，经济前景的不确定性在今年年中再次显现，很多经济体不得不下调增长数字。欧美等国政治纷争，政府能否采取必要措施恢复经济增长，尚无定论。 今年年初，全球性经济复苏似乎已成定局，国际货币基金组织曾经预言2001 年和2012 年的经济增长会实现4.3%...
View ArticleEurope has nothing to fear but fear itself
The eurozone will not break up. The price of departure is simply too great for any one country. Indeed, when Mario Draghi announced on 6 September that the European Central Bank (ECB) would undertake...
View ArticleOnly You Can Prevent Digital Wildfires
IN 1938, thousands of Americans famously mistook a radio adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel “War of the Worlds” for a genuine news broadcast. Police stations were flooded with calls from citizens who...
View ArticleResilience and Dynamism How Countries Survive -- And Thrive
This month, the World Economic Forum will convene world leaders at its annual meeting in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. The theme this year is Resilient Dynamism, an idea that also shapes the Forum's...
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