Workforce and Employment
This is how you can successfully overcome setbacks
Professor Adam Grant looks at what it takes to face adversity and build resilience.
Global Issue
Industry
Economy
System Initiative
Global Issue
Industry
Economy
System Initiative
Risk and Resilience
Cybersecurity
What nature teaches us about managing risk
How do we keep ourselves and our data safe in an increasingly interconnected world? The answers may be closer than we think, based on hints from the natural world.
European Union
Europe’s terror threat is real. But its cities are much safer than you think
While the threat of terrorism in Europe is genuine, it is dramatically lower than just about anywhere else in the world.
South Africa
South Africa must resist the dangerous spiral of economic nationalism
A populist backlash risks derailing Africa's biggest economy, writes Anders Borg, Sweden's former Finance Minister.
Latin America
What are the top risks to doing business in Latin America?
“Failure of national governance”, “unemployment” and “fiscal crises” are all prominently cited as risks by Latin American and Caribbean business executives.
Latin America
Insurance could help Latin America break the link between extreme weather and extreme poverty
The protection gap for floods around the world is already large and continues to grow. How can insurance become a tool for governments to cope with climate change?
United States
This is how Portland is tackling homelessness
Portland will start housing the homeless in tiny pods in people's backyards.
Risk and Resilience
NASA has discovered 7 new planets, but what would life be like there?
What life would be like on the seven newly discovered planets.
Biotechnology
The anti-obesity protein
Researchers may have found a way to halt the development of both type 2 diabetes and obesity in humans using a recently discovered protein.
Global Health
You might not think it, but TB remains a major problem. This is why
Michael Fairbanks explores why TB remains a health concern in the modern world.
Global Health
The world is getting better - here is the proof
Bill and Melinda Gates have shared the charts they think prove the world is getting better.
Risk and Resilience
What natural disasters, and ostriches, can teach you about risk and decision making
A look at how we can learn to best respond to risk.
Cybersecurity
What cyber-security insiders discussed at Davos 2017
The threats posed by hackers, weaponized IoT devices and other forms of cyberattack are not science fiction – they’re happening now.
European Union
The 3 biggest threats to the EU, according to President Tusk
The last two years have brought significant challenges to the integrity of the EU. European Council President Donald Tusk outlines some of the solutions.
The risks that just won't die
One of the key findings of this year’s Global Risks Report is that inequality and polarization are now ranked in the top three as underlying drivers of global risks.