Reports

No Such Thing as a Commodity: Routes to higher value added for SMEs in developing and least developed countries

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are important actors in all economies and key to policies for inclusive growth, innovation, productivity and job cr...

The Global Gender Gap Report 2018

Value in Healthcare: Accelerating the Pace of Health System Transformation

In a world characterized by an ageing population, more and more people suffering from long-term chronic disease, and ever-increasing healthcare costs, improv...

Our Shared Digital Future Building an Inclusive, Trustworthy and Sustainable Digital Society

Our Shared Digital Futures is a publication shaped by leaders from business, government, academia and civil society who collectively acknowledge the need for...

Annual Report 2017-2018

The year was marked by strong achievement, even by the standards of an organization in which exceptional performance is the rule. Working to deliver against ...

Regional Risks for Doing Business

The World Economic Forum has been publishing The Global Risks Report since 2006, highlighting each year the vulnerability of our increasingly networked and i...

The Global Competitiveness Report 2018

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

Harnessing the Fourth Industrial Revolution for Water

As part of the Harnessing the Fourth Industrial Revolution for the Earth series, this paper explores the opportunity for advanced technology to help address ...

Identity in a Digital World: A new chapter in the social contract

All over the world, a growing number of organizations –from the public and private sectors –are advancing systems that establish and verify digital identitie...

The Digital Enterprise: moving from experimentation to transformation

While enormous resources are being spent on digital transformation programs by the private sector, the results are underwhelming. According to estimates, thi...

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 industrie...

Building Block(chain)s for a Better Planet

This report outlines a set of principles for developing blockchain applications for the environment, and identifies the need for global platforms to incubate...