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Workforce and Employment

How future-proof are your skills? Answers to our Instagram quiz

Chemical engineering. A survey of US college graduates saw chemical engineers top a list of 50 majors with a mid-career median salary (10 years in) of $107,000. By comparison, political s...

14 Aug 2018

Where do people live the longest? Answers to our Instagram quiz

Japan. Average life expectancy in the nation is 83 years and seven months – that’s a whole three months ahead of the oldest average Swiss person. (Switzerland came second in the ranking ...

25 Jul 2018

Here are the answers to our Instagram Cities quiz

Zurich. With its many financial institutions and international organizations, the Swiss city lures in the world’s highest number of employees. Stockholm comes second, followed by three mo...

20 Jul 2018

United States

7 books for Black History Month

Essential tales that convey the larger history of black Americans in literature, selected by Penguin Random House.

07 Feb 2018

International Trade and Investment

How to fix trade, according to 10 global CEOs

The quickest way to boost the world economy is to open borders and expand trade. It’s time for policy-makers to act, say business leaders from Volkswagen to UPS

18 Jan 2018

Remembering Jean-Luc Vez

Jean-Luc Vez, 1957-2017, was Head of the World Economic Forum's Global Cyber Centre.

29 Dec 2017

United Arab Emirates

How to follow our meeting of the Global Future Councils 2017

Seven hundred experts are gathering in Dubai to discuss how breakthrough tech will change the world by 2030. Here's how to follow, embed, livestream and repost.

01 Nov 2017

Middle East and North Africa

El Foro Económico Mundial reúne a líderes gubernamentales, empresariales y de la sociedad civil en Jordania

El Foro Económico Mundial sobre Oriente Medio y norte de África (MENA) se celebrará en el Mar Muerto, Jordania, entre el 19 y el 21 de mayo de 2017, en colaboración con el El Fondo de Des...

18 May 2017

Future of Food

Our food system is bust. This innovative three-step plan could fix it

Food is meant to be our life source, but instead it is making us fat and unhealthy. We need a "real food" revolution.

29 Mar 2017

Financial and Monetary Systems

The entrepreneur keeping the American dream alive

Alfa Demellash co-founded Rising Tide Capital to empower underserved urban entrepreneurs in northern New Jersey to start and grow successful businesses.

01 Mar 2017

Migration

Ponte a prueba: ¿Cuánto sabes sobre migración?

Solo podemos invertir las tendencias negativas hacia la inmigración incidiendo en los beneficios que ésta aporta. Desde el Foro Económico Mundial, venimos insistiendo en que es hora de ha...

13 Feb 2017

Geo-economics

El mercado ASEAN, ahora más accesible que la Unión Europea y Estados Unidos

Según el Informe Global de Facilitación del Comercio 2016 publicado conjuntamente por el Foro Económico Mundial y la Alianza Mundial para la Facilitación del Comercio, una mayor integraci...

03 Dec 2016

Oil and Gas

El mercado del petróleo en tiempos de Trump

¿Qué sabemos sobre el programa energético de Trump? ¿Qué aspectos de la coyuntura actual hay que seguir con atención? Y ¿qué efectos podría tener su legislatura en el mediano plazo?

30 Nov 2016

Climate Change

Lo que nadar en aguas congeladas te puede enseñar sobre el arte perdido de la negociación

Ha nadado en el Polo Norte y en cada uno de los océanos del mundo para negociar el área protegida más grande de la historia. Le preguntamos a Pugh por qué cree que sus métodos de diplomac...

29 Nov 2016

Global Governance

What speedos and polar bears teach us about the lost art of negotiating

We spoke with United Nations Patron of the Oceans Lewis Pugh to find out how he helped push through an agreement to create the Ross Sea Marine Protected Area.

18 Nov 2016