Building Back Broader: Policy Pathways for an Economic Transformation

This paper puts forward a set of six pathways to rapidly address longer-term dynamics of recovery while simultaneously building preparedness for future shocks.

Chief Economists Outlook

The June edition of the Chief Economists Outlook comes out amid improving aggregate recovery momentum, yet in a profoundly uncertain environment with widely diverging trajectories.

Global Gender Gap Report 2021

Another generation of women will have to wait for gender parity, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2021. As the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to...

Chief Economists Outlook 2021

This quarterly briefing builds on the latest policy research as well as consultations and surveys with leading chief economists from both the public and private sectors, organized by the ...

Upskilling for Shared Prosperity

Upskilling for Shared Prosperity is a call to action. It makes the economic case for providing employees with learning and development opportunities to expand their horizons while minimiz...

Building a Common Language for Skills at Work A Global Taxonomy

Building a Common Language for Skills at Work: A Global Taxonomy provides a framework for aligning around a universal language for skills. It synthesizes and builds on existing taxonomies...

Global Competitiveness Report Special Edition 2020: How Countries are Performing on the Road to Recovery

The Global Competitiveness Report series has since its first edition aimed to prompt policy-makers beyond short term growth and to aim for long-run prosperity. The 2020 special edition is...

Closing the Skills Gap: Key Insights and Success Metrics

Closing the Skills Gap: Key Insights and Success Metrics provides an overview of learnings from the World Economic Forum’s Closing the Skills Gap 2020 project.

Resetting the Future of Work Agenda: Disruption and Renewal in a Post-COVID World

Resetting the Future of Work Agenda: Disruption and Renewal in a Post-COVID World presents the experiences and lessons learned from the COVID-19 response of the World Economic Forum’s bro...

The Future of Jobs Report 2020

After years of growing income inequality, concerns about technology-driven displacement of jobs, and rising societal discord globally, the combined health and economic shocks of 2020 have...

Markets of Tomorrow: Pathways to a New Economy

Twenty markets of tomorrow are considered promising in that they could support inclusive and sustainable revival of growth. A framework is provided to assess the maturity of these markets...

Dashboard for a New Economy Towards a New Compass for the Post-COVID Recovery

The report builds on the latest economic policy research as well as extensive consultations with the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the New Economic Agenda and a growing ...

Human Capital as an Asset: An Accounting Framework to Reset the Value of Talent in the New World of Work

The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Willis Towers Watson, has published a new white paper, Human Capital as an Asset: An Accounting Framework for to Reset the Value of Talent...

Emerging Pathways towards a Post-COVID-19 Reset and Recovery

The briefing is part of the series of the World Economic Forum’s Chief Economist Outlooks and builds on the latest economic policy research as well as regular consultations with a growing...

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion 4.0: A toolkit for leaders to accelerate social progress in the future of work

The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Toolkit explores the practical opportunities and risks that rapidly emerging technologies represent for diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. The to...

Emerging Priorities and Principles for Managing the Global Economic Impact of COVID-19

The Forum’s second edition of the Chief Economists Outlook addresses these questions: Where is the economy heading in the current situation? How effective are the policy responses being d...

Workforce Principles for the COVID-19 Pandemic: Stakeholder Capitalism in a Time of Crisis

While there currently is a significant focus on the public health and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the workforce and societal implications are no less profound. The guiding p...

Jobs of Tomorrow: Mapping Opportunity in the New Economy

This report has been published by the World Economic Forum as a contribution to a project, insight area or interaction. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed herein are...

Global Social Mobility Index 2020: why economies benefit from fixing inequality

The World Economic Forum has created a new index to measure social mobility, providing a much-needed assessment of the current state of social mobility worldwide.

The Promise of Platform Work: Understanding the Ecosystem

The white paper is designed to help policymakers and other stakeholders be more informed about such platforms and about the people using them to work; to support constructive and balanced...

The Charter of Principles for Good Platform Work

The Charter of Principles for Good Platform Work is a ground-breaking initiative by leading companies in the sector to collectively identify and commit to key principles that in their vie...

Schools of the Future: Defining New Models of Education for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

“Schools of the Future: Defining New Models of Education for the Fourth Industrial Revolution” outlines a new framework for defining quality education in the new economic and social conte...

Taking the Pulse of the New Economy: Chief Economists' Outlook

The new decade opens with a fragile growth outlook, social tensions over the evident polarization of economic outcomes and high levels of uncertainty. There are signs of policy agility an...

HR4.0: Shaping People Strategies in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

HR 4.0, a framework for shaping people's strategies in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, is an initial response to the changing role of organizations in the context of this challenge. It ...

Dialogue Series on New Economic and Social Frontiers: Policy Pathways for the New Economy

Unfolding technological developments pose a significant challenge in terms of the depth of economic and social transformation needed for their benefits to be fully realized and equitably ...

Global Competitiveness Report 2019

The most competitive economies in the world

Data Science in the New Economy: A new race for talent in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

As the Fourth Industrial Revolution unfolds, led by advances in technologies such as data science and artificial intelligence, the labour market is again changing in a fundamental fashion...

Seeking Return on ESG: Advancing the Reporting Ecosystem to Unlock Impact for Business and Society

Building an Effective Ecosystem for ESG’ - a collaboration between the World Economic Forum and its community - seeks to advance the state of environmental, social and governance (ESG) re...

Towards a Reskilling Revolution: Industry-Led Action for the Future of Work

As the Fourth Industrial Revolution impacts skills, tasks and jobs, there is growing concern that both job displacement and talent shortages will impact business dynamism and societal coh...

Strategies for the New Economy: Skills as the Currency of the Labour Market

The qualifications achieved in schools, colleges and universities, the brand of an educational institution or an employer, the social networks of a potential job applicant are all signals...

Dialogue Series on New Economic and Social Frontiers: Shaping the New Economy in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Unfolding technological developments pose a significant challenge in terms of the depth of economic and social transformation needed for their benefits to be fully realized and equitably ...

The Global Gender Gap Report 2018

The Global Competitiveness Report 2018

The new Global Competitiveness Report 2018 will be released on 17 October at 00:01 CEST.

The Future of Jobs Report 2018

New categories of jobs will emerge, partly or wholly displacing others. The skill sets required in both old and new occupations will change in most industries and transform how and where ...

Arab World Competitiveness Report 2018

Which country in the Arab world is the most competitive?

Eight Futures of Work: Scenarios and their Implications

Eight Futures of Work: Scenarios and their Implications presents various possible visions of what the future of work might look like by the year 2030. Based on how different combinations ...

Towards a Reskilling Revolution

As the types of skills needed in the labour market change rapidly, individual workers will have to engage in life-long learning if they are to achieve fulfilling and rewarding careers. Fo...

The Inclusive Development Index 2018

The Inclusive Development Index (IDI) is an annual assessment of 103 countries’ economic performance that measures how countries perform on eleven dimensions of economic progress in addit...

The Global Gender Gap Report 2017

The Global Gender Gap Report benchmarks 144 countries on their progress towards gender parity across four thematic dimensions

The Global Competitiveness Report 2017–2018

Ten years on from the global financial crisis, the prospects for a sustained economic recovery remain at risk due to a widespread failure on the part of leaders and policy-makers to put i...

The Global Human Capital Report 2017

The report measures 130 countries against four key areas of human capital development.

Accelerating Workforce Reskilling for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

An Agenda for Leaders to Shape the Future of Education, Gender and Work

Accelerating Gender Parity in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

An Agenda for Leaders to Shape the Future of Education, Gender and Work

The New Economic Context for the Arab World

The Arab World faces a conundrum of challenges that relate to its current economic model, the geopolitical tensions that characterize parts of the region, and the global trends whose effe...

The Future of Jobs and Skills in the Middle East and North Africa: Preparing the Region for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

The Future of Jobs and Skills in the Middle East and North Africa: Preparing the Region for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Africa Competitiveness Report 2017

The Africa Competitiveness Report was first published in 1998 and has, since 2007, been a biennial project highlighting areas that require policy action and investment to ensure Africa’s ...

The Future of Jobs and Skills in Africa: Preparing the Region for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

With more than 60% of its population under the age of 25, sub-Saharan Africa is already the world’s youngest region today – and, by 2030, will be home to more than one-quarter of the worl...

Beyond the Equity-Efficiency Trade-Off: Practical Ideas for Inclusive Growth and Competitiveness in Europe

Press release: World Economic Forum, European Investment Bank Urge EU Finance Ministers To Make Inclusive Growth Top Priority

Accelerating Gender Parity: A Toolkit

We hope that the principles for action outlined herein will serve to deepen existing commitments, inspire fresh, impact-focused initiatives to promote gender parity, and further work with...

The Inclusive Growth and Development Report 2017

Going beyond GDP: The Inclusive Growth and Development Growth Report 2017. Read more

Realizing Human Potential in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Globalization and technology are disrupting how we work and exacerbating inequality. Here is how leaders can get ahead of this transition.

Bridging Skills and Innovation Gaps in Latin America: Country Implementation of the Competitiveness Lab

Making progress on competitiveness, the factors and institutions that determine productivity and future prosperity, requires multistakeholder engagement and coordinated efforts with gover...

The Global Gender Gap Report 2016

Through the Global Gender Gap Report, the World Economic Forum quantifies the magnitude of gender disparities and tracks their progress over time, with a specific focus on the relative ga...

The Global Information Technology Report 2016

The World Economic Forum’s Global Information Technology Report 2016 finds seven countries are excelling when it comes to economically benefiting from investments in information and commu...

Closing the Economic Gender Gap: Learning from the Gender Parity Task Forces

In the 10 years since the World Economic Forum began measuring the economic gender gap it has narrowed by only 3% globally. In addition to the individual actions of employers and governme...

Human Capital Outlook: Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

The Fourth Industrial Revolution will disrupt business models and bring both challenges and opportunities to labour markets over the next five years, with enormous change predicted in the...

The Future of Jobs

Skills and jobs displacement will affect every industry and geographical region, but losses can be offset by job growth in key areas.

Inclusive Growth Report 2015

Around the world, no bigger policy challenge preoccupies leaders than expanding social participation in the process and benefits of economic growth. The report, which covers 112 economies...

Africa Competitiveness Report 2015

The Africa Competitiveness Report was first published in 1998 and has, since 2007, been a biennial project highlighting areas that require policy action and investment to ensure Africa’s ...

Bridging the Skills and Innovation Gap to Boost Productivity in Latin America The Competitiveness Lab

The Competitiveness Lab seeks to achieve this by designing competitiveness strategies, defining policies in specific areas of competitiveness and facilitating public-private collaborations.