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The World Economic Forum was once about spreading wealth. But in the past three years, the wealth of the world’s top five billionaires has more than doubled while 60% of humanity has grown poorer.
The only solution to the ominous threats posed by the increasing use of the notwithstanding clause is to amend Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
A renewed attempt to revamp global partnerships appears to be promising, but at a time of overlapping global emergencies, the pitfalls are numerous.
Leaders must find new ways to measure development and economic progress and to co-operate on prioritising human and environmental security over profits.
Large-scale tree-planting projects are politically popular and media-friendly, but without effective planning and long-term management, they can do more harm than good.
Business schools have vast and diverse expertise to contribute to rebuilding better in a post-pandemic world, but the problems it has laid bare require business schools to change too.
When Joe Biden is the great hope for global change, it’s hard to feel overly optimistic.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution failed to deliver; it’s time that we put our faith once again in hard science.
The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos put environmental risks at the top of its agenda, while the world’s CEOs see overregulation as their biggest threat.
Business leaders are beginning to take the global climate issue seriously by setting science-based targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Making sport accessible to ordinary people can be achieved if communities take control of their organisations.
The World Economic Forum in Davos must change its ethos from ‘idea sharing’ to one of democratic accountability and justice.
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.
Cyberattacks are in the top five global risks, behind extreme weather events and natural disasters. But global cooperation remains deeply problematic.
The billionaires, business leaders and other elites who gathered in Davos praised the president’s policies, yet research on the politics of economic growth suggests it’s too soon to celebrate.
Will young Germans remember their history – and will older German embrace the digital future?
French companies will no longer be ‘forbidden to fail’ and ‘forbidden to succeed,’ the French president tells the World Economic Forum.
It will be the private remarks between senior Australian business leaders and foreign investors at Davos that will likely be the most consequential for the Australian economy in the coming few years.
The movement against globalisation has shifted from developing to developed countries.
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Professor of Innovation & Knowledge Exchange, University of Oxford
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Professor of Advanced Technology Transitions, Arizona State University
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Professor of Ethics and Business Law, University of St. Thomas
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Professor of Political Economy, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University
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Professor of History, University of Michigan
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Professor of Political Science, Athabasca University
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Doctoral Researcher in Economic History, Lund University
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Professor of History and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies, University of Iowa
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