Economic Progress

How to survive and thrive in our age of uncertainty

A worker arrives at his office in the Canary Wharf business district in London February 26, 2014. London's financial services sector created 25 percent more jobs in February than a year ago, new data has shown, indicating the industry may be recovering from the restructuring and redundancies prompted by the financial crisis. After a strong January, the City hiring market showed no signs of slowing down last month, with 3,220 new jobs created, compared with 2,575 added in February 2013, according to financial services recruiter Astbury Marsden. The data suggests London's banks and financial services companies are returning to growth after slashing thousands of jobs in the face of a lengthy recession and a series of industry scandals that followed the financial crisis. Picture taken February 26, 2014. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh (BRITAIN - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)ATTENTION EDITORS: PICTURE 03 OF 25 FOR PACKAGE 'CITY OF LONDON - LIFE IN THE SQUARE MILE'. TO FIND ALL IMAGES SEARCH 'RECRUITER KEOGH' - GM1EA320PLO01

The scale of technological change makes it virtually impossible to forecast what kinds of threats are on the near-horizon Image: REUTERS/Eddie Keogh

Robert Muggah
Co-founder, SecDev Group and Co-founder, Igarapé Institute
Ian Goldin
Professor of Globalization and Development; Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Technological and Economic Change, University of Oxford
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