Stéphanie Thomson is a writer and editor at the World Economic Forum.
For decades now, commentators have been predicting that the end of globalization is nigh, pointing at evidence like the de facto paralysis of the World Trade Organization since 2008. In s...
In the past four years, on many measures, economic progress has stalled. Trade growth has been sluggish. Pandemic, geopolitical and climate-related shocks have caused supply chain turmoil...
The husband of jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has called on Western leaders engaging with Iran to put women's rights at the heart of any negotiations with the Islamic ...
Already in 2023, eye watering inflation rates were being brought under control in many parts of the world. In the US, for example, CPI inflation — which measures the change in the prices ...
¿Qué le espera a la economía mundial? Este tipo de predicciones ya es difícil de hacer en escenarios de estabilidad. En medio de niveles históricos de incertidumbre, resulta aún más difícil.
In a time of almost unprecedented geopolitical and geo-economic uncertainty, resilience — the ability to deal with adversity, weather shocks and adapt as crises arise — has never been so ...
What’s next for the global economy? These types of predictions are difficult to make at the best of times. Amidst historic levels of uncertainty, it becomes even tougher.
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, there was an expectation that the country would quickly capitulate that was echoed by many analysts.
When the Forum of Young Global Leaders was created in 2004, the goal was both simple and incredibly ambitious: to create a multistakeholder community of the world’s next-generation leader...
La descarbonización es un reto -el mayor reto de la humanidad, según la AIE-, pero es aún más difícil de lograr en algunos sectores que en otros.
Decarbonization is challenging — the greatest challenge to mankind, according to the IEA — but it’s even tougher to achieve in some sectors than others.
They say that the only constant in life is change. We may be only in the infancy of the AI era, but it’s hard to think of a time when that sentiment has felt more relevant, especially in ...
In 2015, world leaders committed to 17 goals that, if achieved, had the potential to secure peace and prosperity for people and the planet. Today, we’re past the halfway point to the 2030...
More than 100 million people have been forced to flee their homes, the highest number ever, due to conflict, violence, and persecution. That equates to more than 1% of the global populati...
Normalmente tardamos 90 minutos en recorrer en coche los 16 km que separan nuestra casa de Brooklyn y el oftalmólogo de nuestra hija en el Upper East Side. Hace dos semanas tardamos la mi...
