The Global Risks Report 2022 6 Executive Summary As 2022 begins, COVID-19 and its economic and the outlook for the world, and just 11% believe the societal consequences continue to pose a critical threat global recovery will accelerate. Most respondents to the world. Vaccine inequality and a ...
Inflation was the most worrying topic worldwide as of August 2024, with one third of the respondents choosing that option. Poverty and social inequality as well as crime and violence followed behind. Moreover, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the war in Gaza, 10 percent of the resp...
What you’ll learn in this year’s Global Wealth Report How the world is getting progressively richer across all wealth segments, and which markets are set to benefit. The probability of moving between wealth brackets in a lifetime. How the great wealth transfer might look in practice. ...
To better understand the inequality in breast cancer and its impact, significant attention has been focused on revealing global trends using available datasets, such as the Global Cancer Observatory (GLOBOCAN) and the Global Burden of Disease [[4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [...
All humans contribute to climate change but not equally. Here I estimate the global inequality of individual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions between 1990 and 2019 using a newly assembled dataset of income and wealth inequality, environmental input-output
We anticipate the topic will garner more shareholder attention, due to the ongoing economic inequality that exists throughout the region. Boards will face more pressure this year to ensure they are effectively overseeing risk from a reputational, social, and health perspective to ensure the w...
Warming exacerbates global inequality in forest carbon and nitrogen cycles Jinglan Cui Ouping Deng Baojing Gu Nature Communications (2024) Green spaces provide substantial but unequal urban cooling globally Yuxiang Li Jens-Christian Svenning Chi Xu Nature Communications (2024) Assessing global urban...
naturalresources,increasingeconomicinequality,andtradeandsupply-chainvolatility.Theeconomicandsocio-politicalshocksofthepastfewyears haveonlyexacerbatedanalready-weakening foodenvironment.Astheseshocksbecomemorefrequentandsevere,globalfoodsecuritywillbeincreasinglythreatened. ...
The report emphasizes that governments should seize any fiscal space created by monetary easing to prioritize investments in sustainable development, especially in critical social sectors. The report calls for bold multilateral action to ...
Global inequality is narrowing — and that is cause for celebration Westerners worried about growing disparities at home shouldn’t overlook the transformative effect of liberalisation in India and China July 23 2024 Martin Wolf Immigration is both essential and impossible ...