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The Global Competitiveness Report 2016–2017
The Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017 assesses the competitiveness landscape of 138 economies, providing insight into the drivers of their productivity and prosperity.
Annual Report 2015-2016
"Our world is an interconnected system straining under the burden of its own complexity. The Fourth Industrial Revolution and other factors are combining to make the global environment mo...
Alternative Investments 2020: The Future of Capital for Entrepreneurs and SMEs
The objective of this report is to highlight new alternative sources of capital and examine their potential for broader industry disruption in the future.
Disruptive innovation in financial services: A blueprint for digital
The report, Disruptive innovation in financial services: A blueprint for digital identity, calls on financial institutions to lead the charge in developing robust digital identity solutio...
The future of financial infrastructure: An ambitious look at how blockchain can reshape financial services
The report builds upon the findings from Deloitte/World Economic Forum report Disruptive Innovation in Financial Services and looks at the impact of implementing distributed ledger techno...
Risk-Mitigation Instruments in Infrastructure: Gap Assessment
The report shows that current instruments are too complex, lack adequate standardization and are too costly for the private sector to use. The report identifies four key areas of action –...
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...
Meeting report: Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2016
The 10th Annual Meeting of the New Champions convened more than 2,000 leaders from over 90 countries.
The Human Capital Report 2016
The Human Capital Index seeks to serve as a tool for capturing the complexity of education, employment and workforce dynamics so that various stakeholders are able to make better-informed...
Eyeglasses for Global Development: Bridging the Visual Divide
With 50% of the global population (and 65% of East Asia’s) expected to be short-sighted by 2050, this new report signals a first step by EYElliance, a new multistakeholder coalition, to ...
Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2016
The Top 10 Emerging Technologies 2016 list, compiled by the Forum’s Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies and published in collaboration with Scientific American, highlights technological...
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...