How MENA’s universities can transform the region into the world’s next tech hub
The region's institutions - agile, dynamic and unburdened by dated conventions - are at the forefront of the research that drives the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
The region's institutions - agile, dynamic and unburdened by dated conventions - are at the forefront of the research that drives the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Spending time in his company's call centre gave Earl Valencia a better understanding of how the business, and its people, could succeed.
Globally, the transition from fossil fuels to low-carbon energy has slowed. Nevertheless, most countries are making significant achievements in the areas of energy access and security.
Consumers need to be made more aware of just how much of what they do on the internet is traceable, as recent scandals highlight.
Since the 2008 financial crash, economical norms have gone out the window, so it advanced economies it might be time to go back to the drawing board.
Old paradigms drawn from the previous industrial revolution will only hold us back.
Securing adequate supplies of clean water in a changing climate is one of the world’s most urgent social, political, economic, and environmental challenges.
The mining and metals industry is recovering from one of its most difficult periods in decades - and it now has to contend with a rapidly changing world. Here are seven factors that will ...
If we want to understand how we progress, why we sometimes fail, and ultimately improve the quality of all our lives, then the pursuit of happiness may offer an answer.
New initiatives are changing the way organizations work and expanding their remit
The benefits and pitfalls of protectionist trade policies have long been debated by economists and policy-makers. New research suggests it can cause more harm than good.
Although economists are well positioned to imagine new institutional arrangements, their habit of thinking at the margin and sticking close to the evidence at hand encourages an aversion ...
As countries begin to think about how to regulate cross-border e-commerce in the future, they have found their work complicated by competing visions of what the internet is, and what it i...
Between European elections, Brexit and slowing economic growth, the European Union has a fair few obstacles to overcome in 2019.
Three initiatives in Egypt, Kenya and India show how detailed local knowledge can lead to specific solutions that genuinely help women.