Browsing: General Interest

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Joe Myers Formative Content[/box] The United Arab Emirates is the Arab world’s most competitive economy, according…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Isobel Anderson, University of Stirling and Regina Serpa, University of Stirling[/box] As one of the few…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Michael Loughlin, Nottingham Trent University[/box] If you work in an office, the chances are there are…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]This article is published in collaboration with Chatham House[/box] This article is part of the World Economic…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]This article is published in collaboration the International Institute for Strategic Studies[/box] This article is part of…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Juergen Voegele Senior Director, Food and Agriculture Global Practice, World Bank[/box] Technology has revolutionized agriculture at…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] This article is published in collaboration with Chatham House[/box] This article is part of the World…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Ron Milo Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science [/box] Most of us, including scientists, are blind to…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Christopher Newman, Northumbria University, Newcastle[/box] The Iridium-7 mission has successfully launched from the Vandenberg air force…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Dave Cook, UCL[/box] The phrase “digital nomad” summons the trope of joyful millennials who escape the…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Brought to you in collaboration with the International Institute for Strategic Studies [/box] This article is part…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Adam Jezard Formative Content[/box] China seems determined to reach the stars by building ever-taller skyscrapers. In…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Tom Inglesby Director, Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security[/box] All pandemics start as a small…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]John Colley, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick[/box] The bidding war between Comcast and Disney for…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Alan Felstead, Cardiff University[/box] Whether we work or not, the nation’s productivity – that is, the…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Andrew Crane, University of Bath[/box] People trapped in modern slavery situations endure terrible conditions, threats to…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]This article is published in collaboration with Chatham House[/box] This article is part of the World…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]This article was originally published by Reuters Reuters Staff Adam Jourdan Chief Correspondent, Thomson Reuters[/box] Apple…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Yuka Kobayashi, SOAS, University of London[/box] China first built its famous Great Wall in the Qin…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Alan Shipman, The Open University[/box] Gloomy forecasts for the post-Brexit economy, and a psychological tendency to…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Milan Babic, University of Amsterdam; Eelke Heemskerk, University of Amsterdam, and Jan Fichtner, University of Amsterdam[/box]…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Ernestine Gheyoh Ndzi, University of Hertfordshire[/box] The gender pay gap has been around for as long…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Brought to you in collaboration with the International Crisis Group[/box] This article is part of the…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Robert Muggah Co-founder, Igarape Institute and SecDev Group Camino Kavanagh Visiting fellow, Department of War Studies,…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Dietrich Reetz Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Political Science, South Asia, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient[/box]…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Katie Hill Advisor, Omidyar Network Rose Mutiso Co-founder and CEO, Mawazo Institute Rebekah Shirley Director of…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]This article is written in collaboration with Visual Capitalist[/box] According to Forbes, the world’s 100 most valuable…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]This article is published in collaboration with Fortune[/box] Hong Kong, known for its spectacular setting and bustle,…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Written by Robert Muggah, Co-founder, Igarape Institute and SecDev Group Katie Hill, Advisor, Omidyar Network[/box] Africans are moving to…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]This article is published in collaboration with Visual Capitalist[/box] For the first time in decades, trade barriers…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] Adam Triggs, Research fellow, Australian National University[/box] It was only in January that the International…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Written by: Briony Harris, Formative Content The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] This article is published in collaboration with The Conversation. Written by: Luke Messac, M.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania[/box]…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]This article is part of the World Economic Forum’s Geostrategy platform[/box] As the energy sector has become…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] This article is published in collaboration with the International Crisis Group This article is part of…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]This article is published in collaboration with Chatham House. This article is part of the World Economic…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]CC BY-NC-ND Hui Feng, Griffith University[/box] The Chinese government has appointed a new head of its central…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW[/box] Vital Signs is a regular economic…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Andrea Connor, Western Sydney University and Donald McNeill, Western Sydney University[/box] Cities worldwide face the problems…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Ben Phillips, Australian National University and Matthew Gray, Australian National University[/box] Does the Coalition’s tax plan…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Rutger Bregman Correspondent, De Correspondent, Netherlands[/box] Five years ago, when I first heard about it, the idea had…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Christine Lagarde Managing Director, International Monetary Fund[/box] Recent news on global trade has tended to focus…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Erik P Millstone, University of Sussex and Tim Lang, City, University of London[/box] The UK’s food…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Arturo Bris, IMD Business School[/box] The US has leapfrogged Singapore and Hong Kong to top IMD’s…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Tatsuo Masuda Visiting Professor, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Graduate School[/box] Energy innovation is struggling…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Fred Krupp[/box] In any era, the hard work of environmental progress requires the best available tools.…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Lin Boqiang Director, China Center for Energy Economics Research[/box] The development of renewable energy in China…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Panoraia (Nora) Andriopoulou, Manchester Metropolitan University[/box] It’s well known that mental health is a significant issue…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Negar Habibi, King’s College London[/box] Donald Trump’s decision to unilaterally pull the US out of the…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Barnali Choudhury, UCL and Martin Petrin, UCL[/box] The UK is introducing new legislation that will require…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Peter Thomson United Nations Special Envoy for the Ocean, United Nations[/box] The ocean has shaped my…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Jason Hickel Anthropologist, London School of Economics[/box] Ecological collapse is hard to miss in the headlines.…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Srikar Reddy Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Sonata Software Limited and Sonata Information Technology Limited…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Cathy Mulligan Co-Director, Imperial College Centre for Cryptocurrency Research JP Rangaswami Chief Data Officer, Deutsche Bank…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Alexander Taylor, University of Cambridge[/box] From micro-targeted advertisements to Russian social media sleeper agents and doorstep…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Christopher Boyce, University of Stirling[/box] After nine years of interest rates below 1%, it seems that…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Dan Finn, University of Portsmouth[/box] The jobcentre. It used to be a staple of the British…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Negar Habibi, King’s College London[/box] Donald Trump’s decision to unilaterally pull the US out of the…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Melanie Bailey, University of Surrey[/box] Fingerprints have provided key evidence in countless cases of serious crime.…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Corinna Frey, Cambridge Judge Business School and Marian Gatzweiler, University of Edinburgh[/box] The term “refugee camp”…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Briony Harris Formative Content[/box] India has joined the United States and China as one of the…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Chris Barnes, UCL and Alex J H Fedorec, UCL[/box] Cancer is the leading cause of death…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]David Abney Chairman and CEO, UPS[/box] The art of negotiation is so important – harmonizing different…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Rob Smith Formative Content[/box] Spam accounted for around 60% of all emails sent in 2017 – but the…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]John Moavenzadeh Head of Mobility Industries and System Initiative, Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Andrew Dilley, University of Aberdeen[/box] With the Commonwealth Games in Australia’s Gold Coast, public attention has…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Steve Schifferes, City, University of London[/box] The UK financial press was much slower to criticise the…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Rosalind Searle, University of Glasgow and Charis Rice, Coventry University[/box] With pension funds in a state…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Cathy Parker, Manchester Metropolitan University; Simon Quin, Manchester Metropolitan University, and Steve Millington, Manchester Metropolitan University[/box]…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Orin Levine Director of Vaccine Delivery, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation[/box] What would happen if vaccine…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]This article is published in collaboration with Chatham House[/box] This article is part of the World…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Brought to you in collaboration with the China Institute of International Studies[/box] The Asia-Africa Growth Corridor…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Jonathan Perraton, University of Sheffield[/box] Economic acrimony has been bubbling between the US and China since…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Qing Shan Ding, University of Huddersfield[/box] Tensions are escalating between China and the US over trade.…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Arturo Bris, IMD Business School and Michael Wade, IMD Business School[/box] When Spotify finally went public…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Frank Fredericks Executive Director, World Faith[/box] Communal violence is pervasive, continuous, and global. Killing between 55,000…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Damian Tobin, SOAS, University of London[/box] The current trade dispute between the US and China is…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]This article is written in collaboration with Visual Capitalist Jeff Desjardins Founder and editor of Visual…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Tidhar Wald Head of Government Relations and Public Policy, Better than Cash Alliance, United Nations[/box] Tackling…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Rob Smith Formative Content[/box] China’s digital economy has experienced massive growth over the last decade. About…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Alexandre Nobajas, Keele University[/box] Huge outcry ensued from my recent article about how Brexit would hurt…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Nicholas Ross Smith, University of Nottingham and Zbigniew Dumieński[/box] There has been a lot of talk…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Adam Jezard Formative Content[/box] While governments and central banks often talk about inflation, few citizens have…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]David Aikman Chief Representative Officer, China, Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum Beijing[/box] 1. China…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Evangelos Kontopantelis, University of Manchester[/box] Young people are poorer than older people. And it’s not simply…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Nicholas Ross Smith, University of Nottingham and Zbigniew Dumieński[/box] There has been a lot of talk…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Richard Gower Senior Associate, Economics and Policy, Tearfund[/box] As the Bulawayo road curves out of Zimbabwe’s…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Callie Stinson Project Lead, Water Initiative, World Economic Forum[/box] The global water and sanitation crisis is…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Anwar Halari, The Open University[/box] If you haven’t already heard of Bitcoin, you either haven’t been…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Karen Rowlingson, University of Birmingham[/box] Michael Sheen has just launched the End High Cost Credit Alliance.…