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Managing responses to these trends will shape monetary, fiscal and competition policy-making in the near term, making bigger government another likely legacy Chief economists suggest parallel supply chains and deglobalization unlikely to last Learn more here January 28th, 2021, Geneva (Switzerland): Accelerating inequality, remote work and greater tech market dominance...
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“We need a mindset change to move away from a society where business and government have separate tasks to one in which they, together with civil society, work hand in hand,” said Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum. This was echoed by President Xi Jinping, who...
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January 25th, 2021, Geneva (Switzerland): The World Economic Forum has today launched the Partnering for Racial Justice in Business initiative, which will see a coalition of organizations commit to building equitable and just workplaces for professionals with under-represented racial and ethnic identities. The Partnering for Racial Justice in Business...
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January 13th, 2021, Dubai (UAE)Lahore (Pakistan): Tangible gains for democracy is only possible through equal participation of all members of society. With half of the Pakistani population comprising women, not only does it matter to include them in the politico-economic conversation, good governance direly needs women involved in the...
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It has been a long journey for women’s human rights activists and feminists in the struggle for emancipation from patriarchy, sexism, inequality, discrimination, and violence. In that struggle, women and girls have been denied an education, forced into early marriage, lacked autonomy over reproductive rights, battled poverty and homelessness,...
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As countries around the world begin to ease self-imposed restrictions to contain the spread of COVID-19, they face a new challenge: reviving their economies and societies, while attempting to restore people’s living standards and the privileges they enjoyed before the pandemic. Of course, in many parts of the world,...
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The COVID-19 crisis, and the impact which it has had on learning across the world, has highlighted many of the digital disparities which exist in today’s world. At a time when many of the world’s students shifted from physical to digital, we were also faced with the hard truth...
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January 3rd, 2020, Dubai (UAE): – Sisters Grimm Co-founders Pietra Mello-Pittman and Ella Spira have been awarded MBEs for ‘Services to International Trade and to the Creative Industries’ in the New Year Honours list which recognises the achievements of a wide range of extraordinary people across the United Kingdom....