
Competitiveness and Innovation Accelerator Western Balkans
On a journey to transform their economies, generate growth and create high-quality and sustainable jobs, the six Western Balkans economies (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Monte...
Advancing prosperous, inclusive and equitable economies and societies that provide opportunity for everyone to fulfil their potential.
The twin forces of globalization and technology are transforming our economies, workplaces, communities and families. In advanced and emerging economies, decelerating growth, job disruption, rising inequality and a broken social contract are creating unrest and instability. Yet there has never been a better time to mobilize technology and to unleash the human capability to address these challenges and shape a new socio-economic system that provides opportunity for all.
Our Platform enables leaders to co-create a new vision on three interconnected areas: growth and competitiveness; education, skills and work; and equality and inclusion. Working together, stakeholders deepen their understanding of complex issues, shape new models and standards and drive scalable, collaborative action for systemic change.
Over 150 of the world’s leading companies and 100 international, civil society and academic organizations currently work through the Platform to promote new approaches to competitiveness in the 4IR economy; deploy education and skills for tomorrow’s workforce; build a new pro-worker and pro-business agenda for jobs; and integrate equality and inclusion into the new economy, aiming to reach a billion people with improved economic opportunities.
On a journey to transform their economies, generate growth and create high-quality and sustainable jobs, the six Western Balkans economies (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Monte...
As technology develops at an accelerated pace, cognitive abilities and tasks that were once thought to be reserved for humans are increasingly being automated. There is a window of opport...
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 ...
It is now widely accepted that gender parity in education and employment is critical for economic growth and societal cohesion. Pre-COVID-19 crisis the World Economic Forum predicted that...
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 p...
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...
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...
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 th...
Companies operating digital platforms for individuals to hire out their skills and labour to businesses or consumers, such as Uber and Upwork, have experienced rapid growth in recent year...
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 aro...
Innovation is the driver of competitiveness where the world has made least progress. As the Fourth Industrial Revolution unfolds, its benefits remain concentrated to few pockets of excell...
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 aro...
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 ...
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 cri...
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 ...
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 aro...
The New Metrics CoLab aims to improve decision-making by expanding the availability of insight on key questions within the new economic and social agenda. In collaboration with leading ex...
As technology develops at an accelerated pace, cognitive abilities and tasks that were once thought to be reserved for humans are increasingly being automated. There is a window of opport...
In February 2018, the French government announced that they would establish Europe’s first Closing the Gender Gap Accelerator in France.The Ministry of Labour and the Platform for Shaping...
As technology develops at an accelerated pace, cognitive abilities and tasks that were once thought to be reserved for humans are increasingly being automated. There is a window of opport...
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 ge...
As globalization and technological change create new opportunities and challenges, there are emerging questions around the adequacy of our current economic policies and practices, the soc...
Accelerating LGBTI Equality through the Power of Business LeadershipThe Partnership for Global LGBTI Equality (PGLE) is a coalition of organizations committed to leveraging their individu...
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 m...
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 horizo...
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 disabil...
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 impro...
The world today is increasingly digitalised, with an ever-growing reliance on advanced technologies. Proficiency with such technologies and processes will help diversify the economy, attr...
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 ...
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 ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated a shift to new ways of working, prompting companies to reimagine how, where and by whom work gets done. This shift was already under way with the tec...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 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 presents the experiences and lessons learned from the COVID-19 response of the World Economic Forum’s bro...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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 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” outlines a new framework for defining quality education in the new economic and social conte...
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...
Gender parity will not be attained for 99.5 years – that’s the sobering finding of the Global Gender Gap Report 2020
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 ...
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 most competitive economies in the world
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Gender parity is fundamental to whether and how economies and societies thrive. Ensuring the full development and appropriate deployment of half of the world’s total talent pool has a vas...
The new Global Competitiveness Report 2018 will be released on 17 October at 00:01 CEST.
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 ...
Which country in the Arab world is the most competitive?
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 ...
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 (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 benchmarks 144 countries on their progress towards gender parity across four thematic dimensions
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 report measures 130 countries against four key areas of human capital development.
An Agenda for Leaders to Shape the Future of Education, Gender and Work
An Agenda for Leaders to Shape the Future of Education, Gender and Work
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 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 ...
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...
Press release: World Economic Forum, European Investment Bank Urge EU Finance Ministers To Make Inclusive Growth Top Priority
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...
Going beyond GDP: The Inclusive Growth and Development Growth Report 2017. Read more
Globalization and technology are disrupting how we work and exacerbating inequality. Here is how leaders can get ahead of this transition.
Making progress on competitiveness, the factors and institutions that determine productivity and future prosperity, requires multistakeholder engagement and coordinated efforts with gover...
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 Competitiveness Report 2016-2017 assesses the competitiveness landscape of 138 economies, providing insight into the drivers of their productivity and prosperity.
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...
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...
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...
Skills and jobs displacement will affect every industry and geographical region, but losses can be offset by job growth in key areas.
The Global Gender Gap Index featured in the 2015 Report ranks over 140 economies according to how well they are leveraging their female talent pool, based on economic, educational, health...
The Global Competitiveness Report 2015-2016 assesses the competitiveness landscape of 140 economies, providing insight into the drivers of their productivity and prosperity. The Report se...
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...
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 Competitiveness Lab seeks to achieve this by designing competitiveness strategies, defining policies in specific areas of competitiveness and facilitating public-private collaborations.
Without significant economic growth to increase the average income in disadvantaged countries, it will not be possible for people to leave poverty behind.
Conflict and violence cost the world more than $14 trillion a year. Just a 2% reduction in conflict would free up as much money as the global aid budget.