The COVID-19 pandemic has sent shockwaves rippling through the global economy, threatening the progress that the Banking & Capital Markets Industry (BCM) had made in regaining consume...
In 2019, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) communities around the world filled city streets for LGBTIQ Pride. They were celebrating the incredible – though ...
The coronavirus pandemic has sent shockwaves through societies and economies. It has also given us a glimpse into what a better future might look like – with lower CO2 emissions, improved...
Cancer is pervasive and does not discriminate. It was responsible for 18.1 million new cases and 9.6 million deaths worldwide in 2018, and these numbers are expected to nearly double by 2...
In a matter of weeks, the coronavirus took over our healthcare systems, our economies, and even our societies and lives. It has impacted nearly everyone on the globe. It is a crisis unlik...
The global supply chain, as we know it today, is a manifestation of incremental technological improvements over centuries. The latest of such step changes have stemmed from the widespread...
For children and young people looking to gain an education and skills, COVID-19 has made a bad situation even worse.
In early June, Klaus Schwab – Chairman of the World Economic Forum – called for a ‘great reset’ following the pandemic. Pressing the case for rapid collective action, Schwab said the resp...
The world is seeing a proliferation of digital assets – cryptocurrencies used as a means of exchange and a store of value, tokens that allow access to decentralized platforms, and digitiz...
The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and social and economic responses are amplifying social inequalities and hampering strategic, long-term investments into sustainability by firms and governments...
The COVID-19 pandemic is a tragic health crisis causing irreversible damage to the global economic and financial system. It is also worsening trade restrictions and reducing trade volumes...
When China overtakes the United States as the biggest economy in the world, as it will do in the next few years, that will be just one milestone. With the country’s growth likely to conti...
Despite the dedicated work of tens of thousands of scientists around the world, the novel coronavirus is still mostly a mystery. More than six months after it began infecting people, we d...
The killing of George Floyd on 25 May 2020 by a Minnesota police officer sparked global outrage – and a long-overdue movement to end the systemic racism and inequality that have plagued n...
The events leading to the Great Recession that started in 2007 are often referred to as a credit crisis. But that is true only in a narrow way. The recession was driven primarily by the b...
