Centre for the New Economy and Society

Projects

OverviewThe Partnership for New Work Standards is a global, cross-industry initiative for forward-thinking companies, with input from unions and independent experts, to leverage their individual and collective power t...

Making skills the currency of the labour marketThe SkillsLink Alliance is an ecosystem of partnerships between learning providers, employers and governments designed to operationalize the Reskilling Revolution and shi...

OverviewThe Partnering for Racial Justice in Business initiative is a global coalition of organizations and their C-suite leaders committed to leveraging their individual and collective power to build equitable and ju...

Inclusive Leadership for a Great ResetThe COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the Fourth Industrial Revolution’s blurring of the lines between people, workplaces and technology, and leading to one of the greatest workpl...

As the unfolding global economic crisis is putting into stark contrast the inadequacies in existing structures, economists, in both the public and private sectors, will need to play a critical role in helping to funda...

How can we drive economic transformation? In order to achieve the twin objectives of generating economic prosperity and addressing key societal and environmental challenges, our economies will need to transition to a ...

Despite extensive efforts to anchor alternative measures of economic performance, GDP growth today remains a core economic policy objective and is still often treated as both a necessary and sufficient marker of succe...

ContextThe World Economic Forum’s New Economy and Society Platform aims to work with its partners to provide better education, skills and jobs to 1 billion people by 2030. The urgency around this agenda has been given...

Gender parity in education and employment is critical for economic growth and societal cohesion. The World Economic Forum estimates that at the current rate of progress, it will take 267.6 years to close the economic ...

A Winning Strategy for Women in the New World of WorkThe Hardwiring Gender Parity in the Future of Work is a Business Commitment Framework that offers a demand-driven approach to embed gender equality in emerging role...

It is now widely accepted that gender parity in education and employment is critical for economic growth and societal cohesion. According to the estimates of the Global Gender Gap Report 2020, the Latin America and th...

It is now widely accepted that gender parity in education and employment is critical for economic growth and societal cohesion. According to the estimates of the Global Gender Gap Report 2020, the Latin America and th...

Egypt is home to 48.7 million women, and improvements to their conditions will have a significant impact on the country’s economic and social progress. Whilst Egypt has shown steady improvement on educational attainme...

It is now widely accepted that gender parity in education and employment is critical for economic growth and societal cohesion. According to the estimates of the Global Gender Gap Report 2020, the Latin America and th...

It is now widely accepted that gender parity in education and employment is critical for economic growth and societal cohesion. According to the estimates of the Global Gender Gap Report 2020, the Latin America and th...

In the United Arab Emirates there are several driving sources which shape the future of jobs and skills in the world. Among these are the technological progress which will open new horizons for non-existing opportunit...

Accelerating Disability Inclusion through the Power of Business LeadershipThe World Economic Forum Platform for Shaping the Future of the New Economy and Society aims to close the disability inclusion gap by driving b...

ContextOver 50% of the current workforce will require reskilling by 2025. Yet the ability to adapt to change and engage in lifelong learning must be developed from an early age. Studies show that early investments in ...

New technologies, demographic shifts and the impact of Covid-19 on the labour market have been radically transforming the way that organizations conduct business and the type of skills their talent needs to help them ...

The Network works to empower sound decision-making among leaders in business and policy by providing fresh, actionable insight into key questions on the economic and social agenda. Business leaders and policy-makers f...

As part of the cross-industry Preparing for the Future of Work initiative, the Advanced Manufacturing Industry Taskforce is high-Level community of Chief Human Resource Officers, policy makers, experts, Technology Pio...

Accelerating LGBTI Equality through the Power of Business LeadershipThe Partnership for Global LGBTI Equality (PGLE) is a coalition of organizations committed to leveraging their individual and collective advocacy to ...

Closing the global skills gap could add US$11.5 trillion to global GDP by 2028. Education and training systems need to keep pace with the new demands of labor markets that are continually challenged by technological d...