In 2020, the global workforce lost an equivalent of 255 million full-time jobs, an estimated $3.7 trillion in wages and 4.4% of global GDP, a staggering toll on lives and livelihoods. While vaccine rollout has begun and the growth outlook is predicted to improve, an even socio-economic recovery is far from certain.
The choices made by policymakers, business leaders, workers and learners today will shape societies for years to come. At this critical crossroads, leaders must consciously, proactively and urgently lay the foundations of a new social contract, rebuilding our economies so they provide opportunity for all.
In this context, the Forum remains committed to working with the public- and private sectors to provide better skills, jobs and education to 1 billion people by 2030 through initiatives to close the skills gap and prepare for the ongoing technological transformation of the future of work.
Future of Work
Reskilling Revolution: Preparing 1 billion people for tomorrow’s economy
The Reskilling Revolution has mobilized an impressive multistakeholder community of over 350 organizations. The Forum is working to provide 1 billion people with better education, skills ...
Jobs and Skills
5 new job roles powered by Large Language Models (LLMs)
Emerging Technologies
How universities can play a pivotal role in building economic resilience
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Fairer Economies
Denmark mandates financial literacy education from age 13
Education
This e-learning platform in Bangladesh is training students and teachers
Education
Teenagers' maths and reading skills are dropping sharply
Education
Why we must plan lifelong learning for a generation that will live past 100
Find out why we need a new lifelong learning model better suited to centenary life spans where people might be in the workplace for another 20 to 40 years.
Education
Using smartphones to boost digital literacy among India's rural communities
Teaching daycare workers basic digital literacy skills can kickstart a continuous cycle of education and pass tech skills along to children in their care.
Education
OECD PISA results: Maths and reading skills in 'unprecedented drop'. Here's why that matters
The first OECD PISA study since the pandemic shows an "unprecedented drop" in maths and reading performance.
Education
An extra $437 spent on every child boosts high school graduation rates, finds a new study. Here’s how
More public spending on education and support for vulnerable households boosts graduation rates, a study by Michigan State University has found.
Education
Want to boost school graduation rates? Public spending is key
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