17 must-read stories for the weekend

Crucial climate talks start in Paris at the end of the month. Is the world ready to act? The UN’s top negotiator thinks so.

Is Europe outperforming the US? The two economies are roughly the same size and have expanded at similar rates. But Europe scores much better on inclusive growth.

The internet isn’t really like a cloud. Almost all international traffic passes through cables under the oceans – an undersea web that is largely unregulated and increasingly vulnerable.

The relationship between unemployment and inflation has changed. Central bankers have been left disorientated. Deciding whether to raise interest rates is getting trickier.

Private equity is an industry known for devising nuanced solutions to endemic risks. Time to turn those skills to tackling its own gender imbalances?

Politics and competitiveness are two reasons the Indian economy is set to roar.

China and the US are seen as the great global growth engines. But why not India?

58% of India’s employers are facing a skills shortage. How can business help young Indians tool up for the jobs of the future?

What’s driving youth unemployment and terrorist recruitment? The economics of marriage.

The workforce of the fourth industrial revolution. The global market for intelligent machines is set to more than triple to $153 billion by 2020.

We need a new kind of big economic thinking. But who will be the 21st-century Keynes?

Facebook has made another step forward in artificial intelligence. Just don’t challenge your computer to a game of Go.

Did industrial pollution kill the world’s most famous painter? New research claims fumes from gas lighting drove Van Gogh to suicide.

25% of South Africans are unemployed. President Jacob Zuma has a plan to get them back to work, which he discussed at the Forum’s June meeting in Cape Town. (SABC)

Will robots destroy our jobs? Quite the opposite, said policy-makers at the Forum’s Summit on the Global Agenda, as they embraced a robotic future. (The National)

India’s power industry is struggling. But the government will be announcing big policy changes to help, said ministers at the Forum’s National Strategy Day on India. (Times of India)

Making a profit and doing good. It is possible, as these Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneurs show. (Livemint)

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Author: Adrian Monck is Managing Director and head of Public Engagement at the World Economic Forum.

Image: Flowers are pictured in front of the snow covered Bettelwurf mountain summit in the western Austrian village of Absam April 29, 2015. REUTERS/Dominic Ebenbichler