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When Joe Biden is the great hope for global change, it’s hard to feel overly optimistic.
The high-profile absence of several world leaders including Trump from the World Economic Forum has led some to suggest its influence is in decline. A philosopher who has seen Davos up close disagrees.
Oxfam’s efforts to find solutions to the world’s inequalities are welcome but its wrongful use of “human economy” and repackaging it as a concept from high up might do more harm than good.
The need to connect African markets to aid development will once again be discussed at the World Economic Forum. The debate needs to move beyond the usual rhetoric.
Redressing the balance can start from the bottom up.
The four scenarios in the WEF’s 2017 food report paint a bleak picture. But there are better ways.
According to the latest Oxfam report, the richest eight people in the world are as wealthy as the bottom 50% of the world’s population. But let’s scrutinise these numbers a bit more.
Xi Jinping is the first Chinese leader to attend the World Economic Forum and used his speech to denounce protectionism. But China’s trade liberalisation has stalled recently.
Wind and solar power can be intermittent. Should our usage be too?
Celebrating mental health is a great opportunity to make the right changes to keep workers happy – and productive.
While AI seems unstoppable, our improved understanding of human brains is levelling the playing field for now.
A wave of technological innovation has started to fundamentally alter how we make stuff. It signals an era of huge change.
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Director and Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI), University of Technology Sydney
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Peter Whiteford is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Director, Centre for India & Global Business, Cambridge Judge Business School
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Project Researcher, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
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Head: Wits School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Regional Economic Development, University of Birmingham
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Senior Research Associate in Public Health, University of Cambridge
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PhD Researcher, University of Sussex
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Professor of Innovation & Knowledge Exchange, University of Oxford
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Consulting Economist; and Senior Research Fellow University of Johannesburg, University of Johannesburg
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Post Doctoral Fellow (Development Economist), Human Economy Programme, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Ethics and Business Law, University of St. Thomas
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Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Cambridge
