
How businesses can help solve society’s workforce problems
In the past nine months, I’ve been proud to see so many businesses stepping up to help their employees and communities. From rolling out new benefits and programmes aimed at helping peopl...
In the past nine months, I’ve been proud to see so many businesses stepping up to help their employees and communities. From rolling out new benefits and programmes aimed at helping peopl...
For the privileged few, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) have become commonplace, increasingly used in everything from entertainment and online commerce to healthcare. Many...
The COVID-19 pandemic is generating monumental challenges for most governments, corporations and societies, both online and off. There is a very high probability that we’ll look back on 2...
Governments and development partners have long used economic inclusion programs as part of their anti-poverty efforts. These interventions are key to helping the poorest and vulnerable p...
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As we begin a new year, it is traditional to take stock of the past in order to look forward, to imagine and plan for a better future.
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This year must be the time to reset the relationship between Africa and Europe. With the blow dealt by COVID-19 to both continents and the inequalities highlighted, forging a stronger par...
Today, for the first time in history, most people can expect to live into their 60s and beyond. Longer lives, combined with marked falls in fertility rates, has led to an increase in both...
Spiralling COVID-19 infections and deaths, economic turmoil and political instability have continued unabated into 2021, further rattling our economies and societies. Last year has left u...
As we enter 2021, a growing number of countries are announcing net-zero targets. This is a most welcome set of New Year’s resolutions. But as with our personal commitments to get in shape...
It has been more than a decade since former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called climate change the “defining challenge of our era”. There is now widespread scientific evidence pointin...
Humans have many kinds of bias; confirmation, anchoring and gender among them. Such biases may lead people to behave unfairly and, as such, as a society we try to mitigate them.
While the coronavirus pandemic is ravaging around the globe, we will continue to experience unprecedented urbanization in the coming decades. Today, 55% of the global population lives in ...
The acceleration to a digital economy over the last year has shone a light on the question: how do we ensure the digitization of services is equitable, so our most vulnerable communities ...