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Will a warmer world bring financial turbulence? Regulators are concerned and pushing investors to get serious about climate.
A hidden tax on growth. Corruption costs as much as $1.5 trillion a year. So why have policy-makers shied away from discussing it?
Invisibility cloaks and 3D-printed body organs are among 7 technologies turning science fiction into fact.
Are we heading for a second Cold War? Not yet. But history shows we’d be foolish to dismiss the idea.
Schemes for curbing global carbon emissions have so far been flawed. Could France’s tax regime for new cars hold the answer?
Europe could see double the number of asylum seekers this year. Where are they from and where are they heading? Europe’s refugee crisis explained.
Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution is the theme of the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2016.
Five ways to understand the tidal waves of change we’re experiencing.
When robots turn white collar, expect the biggest economic change the world has ever seen.
Will disruption to employment mean robots competing with migrants for the same jobs?
What a smart fridge tells us about the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Peak human? “Our last remaining really strong comparative advantage was the ability of our brains to serve as cybernetic control mechanisms for dumb animals and dumb machines.”
Will manpower be the horsepower of the Fourth Industrial Revolution? And if so, how can we reshape our future?
Africa’s population is forecast to hit 4 billion by 2100. Rapid growth and improving education mean the continent could also become a global growth engine.
Greater precision in gene-editing is yielding impressive results. Hopes are rising that, after some false starts, the technique has finally come of age.
Celebrating the life of a Forum friend. Soraya Salti may be gone, but her legacy lives on in the thousands of people she touched through her social entrepreneurship. (Huffington Post)
Coke and Pepsi join forces to celebrate Veterans Day. It builds on a meeting they had in Davos last year. (Fortune)
Tackling the digital revolution will be the focus of this year’s Annual Meeting, which brings together more than 2,500 global leaders. (Swissinfo)
Taking a gamble on Brazil’s schools. A billionaire investor is betting he can turn around the country’s failing education system. Cites Forum research. (Bloomberg)
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Author: Adrian Monck is Managing Director and head of Public Engagement at the World Economic Forum.
Image: Children touch the hands of the humanoid robot Roboy at the exhibition Robots on Tour in Zurich, March 9, 2013. REUTERS/Michael Buholzer
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