What might the world look like in 2025? In autumn 2020 the World Economic Forum convened expert-led Global Future Councils, time-bound think tanks, to explore that very question.
The mood at Davos was the gloomiest since 2009. The war in Ukraine, surging inflation, tightening monetary policies, dismal markets, crypto unravelling, and a long economic hangover from ...
The IMF’s mandate is to safeguard the stability of the international monetary and financial system, and crypto assets are changing the system profoundly.
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital finance platforms as the primary tool for executing transactions. As such, ensuring all consumers and small businesses have access to vital t...
Getting to carbon neutrality is immensely expensive. In the EU alone, reaching zero emissions by 2050 is estimated to cost $300 billion per year for the foreseeable future. Taxpayers will...
If we are serious about meeting our climate pledges, an innovative approach to financing is needed. Despite increased pledges to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, it’s not clear ho...
Digital currencies have been around for a decade, yet the regulatory systems governing them are fragmented, ineffective and, in some countries, non-existent. This allows illicit activitie...
The volume of data generated globally is expected to increase by a whopping 530% – from 33 zettabytes in 2018 to 175 zettabytes by 2025. AI has the power to transform this data profusion ...
Micro, small, and medium sized enterprises (MSMEs) are the foundation of our global economy and the backbone of our local communities. They are job creators, community builders, enablers ...
To get through COVID-19 as best as possible and approach its aftermath triumphantly, business and government must put power in the hands of the populace.
• The world is facing a pensions crisis by 2050.
The pandemic has exposed how unprepared many institutions were for one of the greatest global challenges in generations. Yet it’s also catalyzed a wartime footing of speed and ingenuity i...
The decline of cash use in western economies has accelerated due to COVID-19. Meanwhile, central bank digital currencies are emerging, potentially upending the existing global economic hi...
Latin America and the Caribbean is now the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 170,000 people have died from the disease as of 23 July, and there is a strong likelihood that the...
As COVID-19 rages on, it gives Africa multiple reasons to turn to mobile innovations in order to leapfrog the continent's e-health services. Externally, the overwhelming of healthcare sys...
