Tag: WEF

Climate Change – How to save the world’s forests with carbon credits (WEF)

Image: World Resources Institute David Antonioli How carbon credits can save the world's forests | World Economic Forum (weforum.org)

Global – An inclusive economic recovery starts with growth, jobs, skills and equity. 9 leaders explain (WEF)

Image: World Economic Forum Eoin Ó Cathasaigh, Gayle Markovitz An inclusive economic recovery starts with jobs, skills and education. 8 leaders explain | World Economic Forum...

Global – How to protect healthcare workers – and improve pandemic preparedness (WEF)

Image: WHO Amira Ghouaibi, Mbali Motsoeneng 6 steps to protecting and supporting our healthcare workers | World Economic Forum (weforum.org)

Latin America and the Carribean – Lives or livelihoods: Latin America and the Caribbean’s pandemic dilemma (WEF)

Image: WHO, Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard. Containment strategies have helped to flatten the curve. Carlos Felipe Jaramillo, Sergio Olivieri, Carolina Mejia-Mantilla What are the effects of lockdown on...

Africa – What shifting foreign investment patterns mean for Africa’s recovery (WEF)

Image: Authors’ calculations using UNCTAD FDI and EORA Statistics. Total share of global FDI inflows. Christine Zhenwei Qiang, Peter Kusek, Victor Steenbergen, Brody Viney What shifting foreign...

Global – Building back broader: 6 steps to a global jobs recovery plan (WEF)

Image: World Economic Forum Future of Jobs Report 2020 Saadia Zahidi Building back broader: 6 steps to a global jobs recovery plan | World Economic Forum...

Global – Building Back Broader: Policy Pathways for an Economic Transformation (WEF)

The highly asymmetric impact of the pandemic has reinforced historical inequalities within and between countries and is now giving rise to a highly divergent...

Economics – Chief Economists Outlook (WEF)

The June edition of the Chief Economists Outlook comes out amid improving aggregate recovery momentum, yet in a profoundly uncertain environment with widely diverging...

Advanced Manufacturing – How to make remote work in manufacturing a reality (WEF)

Image: Gallup Graham Immerman How to make remote work in manufacturing a reality | World Economic Forum (weforum.org)

Asia/Digital/Post Pandemic Recovery – How big tech can help start-ups fuel Asia’s post-pandemic recovery (WEF)

Ahmed Mazhari COVID-19 has wreaked global economic damage and further exposed the digital divide. With its established digital ecosystem, Asia is well positioned to...

Pandemic/Labour Migration – How COVID-19 has affected international labour migration – and the path to enduring reintegration (WEF)

The state of employment during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines Maria A. Villalba How COVID-19 has affected international labour migration | World Economic Forum (weforum.org)

Future of Work – Home-office, HQ, hybrid or work-from-anywhere? This is what businesses are planning (WEF)

Gayle Markovitz As vaccination programmes are rolled out, businesses are starting to redefine the future for their office workers. Experiences of remote work diverge...

Argentina – New economic measures are needed to avoid collapse of families during pandemic. Around the world many families have suffered through the COVID-19...

Vanesa D'Alessandre, Florencia Caro Sachetti https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/05/new-economic-measures-collapse-families-pandemic/

Biodiversity – This proven strategy can reverse biodiversity loss and boost economies. Implementing natural resource management principles can reverse biodiversity’s rapid decline (WEF)

Izabella Teixeira, Janez Potocnik https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/05/natural-resource-management-reverse-biodiversity-loss/

Climate Change – This is why it’s good business to invest in nature conservation (WEF)

Johnny Wood Image: UN State of Finance for Nature report Nature-based solutions can increase health, business and the economy. $133 billion is invested annually in...