Why the middle class can be a weapon against climate change
Homi Kharas, from the Brookings Institute, explores how we can balance middle class expansion and a healthy planet.
Homi Kharas, from the Brookings Institute, explores how we can balance middle class expansion and a healthy planet.
Imagine a future where self-driving cars, trains and buses are all seamlessly connected through an app and car parks have been turned into green spaces.
Instead of worrying about buying fewer things, our focus should be on designing products that are less harmful to our environment and the labour force that creates them.
Multi-stakeholder partnerships are the only way to address the global challenges of sustainable development - but they are not easy, warns Bertrand Badré.
Tolu Olubunmi writes an open letter to other immigrants.
Data is becoming a source of wealth and public value, the lifeline of the digital society, writes Yasar Jarrar. So where does government fit in?
Sandeep Dadlani takes a look the future of consumption in a time of rapid technological change.
Mark Leonard evaluates the crisis of political representation, and the generational differences that have emerged.
As the immigration debate rages on in the US, the time has come for opposing sides to reach a compromise.
What if you could predict where a crime will take place before it occurred, even determining the time of the incident and the identity of the culprit? That might soon be a reality.
With predictions that in the coming decades, centurions will become the norm rather than the exception, it was no surprise that longevity was an emerging theme in Davos a few weeks back.
The story of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is one of optimism —technology saving lives and the environment— and slight fear – consequences we are unprepared for. Professor Klaus Schwab...
Four reasons we all benefit from well managed migration.
A year ago at the World Economic Forum in Davos, a report from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the World Economic Forum found that most plastic packaging is used only once; 95% of the ...
The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos concluded at the end of last week, just as a new global vision was inaugurated in the US. The contrast between the two was stark.