Stéphanie Thomson is a writer and editor at the World Economic Forum.
Los académicos que investigan el bienestar han coincidido durante mucho tiempo casi de manera unánime en algo: a lo largo de la vida típica, la felicidad tiende a seguir una curva en form...
Cuando la pandemia de COVID-19 obligó a gran parte del mundo a confinarse, la cantante y compositora ganadora de un Grammy, Angélique Kidjo, comenzó a trabajar en su último álbum. Gracias...
When the COVID-19 pandemic meant large parts of the world went into lockdown, Grammy-award winning singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo started working on her latest album. Thanks to technol...
Academics researching wellbeing have for a long time almost unanimously agreed on one thing: over the typical lifetime, happiness tends to follow a U-shaped curve, peaking at 30, plummeti...
Hay una expresión que a menudo utilizan los académicos más enfocados en lo cuantitativo: si no puedes medirlo, no existe. En otras palabras, no podemos ni siquiera empezar a concebir un p...
There’s an expression often used by more quantitative-focused academics: if you can’t measure it, it doesn’t exist. In other words, we can’t even begin to conceive of an issue without ade...
The economic case for gender parity should be settled. Time and time again, research shows that if men and women were to have the same opportunities — educational, professional, health, t...
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.
