Building Back Broader: Policy Pathways for an Economic Transformation

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

Chief Economists Outlook

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

Global Gender Gap Report 2021

Another generation of women will have to wait for gender parity, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2021. As the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to...

Chief Economists Outlook 2021

The approval of several COVID-19 vaccines in late 2020 has brightened public health and economic prospects for 2021. Yet, prior to the onset of the pandemic, the global economy already ha...

Upskilling for Shared Prosperity

In Collaboration with PwC

Building a Common Language for Skills at Work A Global Taxonomy

Building a Common Language for Skills at Work: A Global Taxonomy provides a framework for aligning around a universal language for skills. It synthesizes and builds on existing taxonomies...

Global Competitiveness Report Special Edition 2020: How Countries are Performing on the Road to Recovery

The Global Competitiveness Report series has since its first edition aimed to prompt policy-makers beyond short term growth and to aim for long-run prosperity. The 2020 special edition is...

Closing the Skills Gap: Key Insights and Success Metrics

Closing the Skills Gap: Key Insights and Success Metrics provides an overview of learnings from the World Economic Forum’s Closing the Skills Gap 2020 project. It summarizes the endeavour...

Resetting the Future of Work Agenda: Disruption and Renewal in a Post-COVID World

Resetting the Future of Work Agenda: Disruption and Renewal in a Post-COVID World presents the experiences and lessons learned from the COVID-19 response of the World Economic Forum’s bro...

The Future of Jobs Report 2020

The Future of Jobs report maps the jobs and skills of the future, tracking the pace of change. It aims to shed light on the pandemic-related disruptions in 2020, contextualized within a l...

Markets of Tomorrow: Pathways to a New Economy

Recovery from the economic downturn attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic calls for an inclusive and sustainable economic transformation capable of economic growth that is conducive to the ...

Dashboard for a New Economy Towards a New Compass for the Post-COVID Recovery

The simultaneous disruption caused by the COVID-19 crisis in nearly every country around the world has forced societies into a moment of pause and reflection on what is truly of value. Re...

Human Capital as an Asset: An Accounting Framework to Reset the Value of Talent in the New World of Work

The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Willis Towers Watson, has published a new white paper, Human Capital as an Asset: An Accounting Framework for to Reset the Value of Talent ...

Emerging Pathways towards a Post-COVID-19 Reset and Recovery

The COVID-19 crisis and the political, economic, and social disruptions it has caused have exposed the inadequacies of our current economic systems. Amid global concern for lives, livelih...

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion 4.0: A toolkit for leaders to accelerate social progress in the future of work

The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Toolkit explores the practical opportunities and risks that rapidly emerging technologies represent for diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. The to...

Emerging Priorities and Principles for Managing the Global Economic Impact of COVID-19

Governments and central banks in the economies most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic have rapidly mobilized to keep their economies on “life support” while societies fight the most drama...

Workforce Principles for the COVID-19 Pandemic: Stakeholder Capitalism in a Time of Crisis

While there currently is a significant focus on the public health and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the workforce and societal implications are no less profound. The guiding p...

Jobs of Tomorrow: Mapping Opportunity in the New Economy

Through new data sources, we can gain unprecedented insights into emerging opportunities for employment in the global economy, and granular understanding of the skill sets needed by profe...

Global Social Mobility Index 2020: why economies benefit from fixing inequality

The World Economic Forum has created a new index to measure social mobility, providing a much-needed assessment of the current state of social mobility worldwide.

The Promise of Platform Work: Understanding the Ecosystem

Understanding the platform economy has been held back in part by a lack of definitional clarity. A new white paper by the World Economic Forum, The Promise of Platform Work: Understanding...

The Charter of Principles for Good Platform Work

Digital work/service platforms can offer affordable services to consumers, allow companies and clients greater opportunities to access talent, and provide flexible opportunities for earni...

Schools of the Future: Defining New Models of Education for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

As globalization and rapid advancements in technology continue to transform civic space and the world of work, education systems have grown increasingly disconnected from the realities an...

Taking the Pulse of the New Economy: Chief Economists' Outlook

The new decade opens with a fragile growth outlook, social tensions over the evident polarization of economic outcomes and high levels of uncertainty. There are signs of policy agility an...

HR4.0: Shaping People Strategies in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is blurring the lines between people and technology. The impact of those changes on the way people work and businesses produce value spans all industries,...

Dialogue Series on New Economic and Social Frontiers: Policy Pathways for the New Economy

Unfolding technological developments pose a significant challenge in terms of the depth of economic and social transformation needed for their benefits to be fully realized and equitably ...

Global Competitiveness Report 2019

Ten years on from the global financial crisis, the world economy remains locked in a cycle of low or flat productivity growth despite the injection of more than $10 trillion by central ba...

Data Science in the New Economy: A new race for talent in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

As the Fourth Industrial Revolution unfolds, led by advances in technologies such as data science and artificial intelligence, the labour market is again changing in a fundamental fashion...

Seeking Return on ESG: Advancing the Reporting Ecosystem to Unlock Impact for Business and Society

Building an Effective Ecosystem for ESG’ - a collaboration between the World Economic Forum and its community - seeks to advance the state of environmental, social and governance (ESG) re...

Towards a Reskilling Revolution: Industry-Led Action for the Future of Work

As the Fourth Industrial Revolution impacts skills, tasks and jobs, there is growing concern that both job displacement and talent shortages will impact business dynamism and societal coh...

Strategies for the New Economy: Skills as the Currency of the Labour Market

The qualifications achieved in schools, colleges and universities, the brand of an educational institution or an employer, the social networks of a potential job applicant are all signals...

Dialogue Series on New Economic and Social Frontiers: Shaping the New Economy in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Unfolding technological developments pose a significant challenge in terms of the depth of economic and social transformation needed for their benefits to be fully realized and equitably ...

The Global Gender Gap Report 2018

The Global Competitiveness Report 2018

The Future of Jobs Report 2018

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is interacting with other socio-economic and demographic factors to create a perfect storm of business model change in all industries, resulting in major ...

Arab World Competitiveness Report 2018

The Arab World is at a critical juncture. Ambitious economic and social reforms bring great economic promise to the region and at the same time we continue to see fragility and persisting...

Eight Futures of Work: Scenarios and their Implications

Eight Futures of Work: Scenarios and their Implications presents various possible visions of what the future of work might look like by the year 2030. Based on how different combinations ...

Towards a Reskilling Revolution

As the types of skills needed in the labour market change rapidly, individual workers will have to engage in life-long learning if they are to achieve fulfilling and rewarding careers. Fo...

The Inclusive Development Index 2018

The Inclusive Development Index (IDI) is an annual assessment of 103 countries’ economic performance that measures how countries perform on eleven dimensions of economic progress in addit...

The Global Gender Gap Report 2017

The Global Competitiveness Report 2017–2018

The Global Human Capital Report 2017

How nations develop their human capital can be a more important determinant of their long-term success than virtually any other factor. The Global Human Capital Index 2017 ranks 130 count...

Accelerating Workforce Reskilling for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

An Agenda for Leaders to Shape the Future of Education, Gender and Work

Accelerating Gender Parity in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

An Agenda for Leaders to Shape the Future of Education, Gender and Work

The New Economic Context for the Arab World

The Arab World faces a conundrum of challenges that relate to its current economic model, the geopolitical tensions that characterize parts of the region, and the global trends whose effe...

The Future of Jobs and Skills in the Middle East and North Africa: Preparing the Region for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Education and work in the Middle East and North Africa region will determine the livelihoods of over 300 million people and drive growth and development for generations to come. As one of...

Africa Competitiveness Report 2017

The Africa Competitiveness Report was first published in 1998 and has, since 2007, been a biennial project highlighting areas that require policy action and investment to ensure Africa’s ...

The Future of Jobs and Skills in Africa: Preparing the Region for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

With more than 60% of its population under the age of 25, sub-Saharan Africa is already the world’s youngest region today – and, by 2030, will be home to more than one-quarter of the worl...

Beyond the Equity-Efficiency Trade-Off: Practical Ideas for Inclusive Growth and Competitiveness in Europe

Press release: World Economic Forum, European Investment Bank Urge EU Finance Ministers To Make Inclusive Growth Top Priority

Accelerating Gender Parity: A Toolkit

Over the past 10 years, the World Economic Forum has brought together a community of influential leaders committed to addressing the global gender gap with a focus on the economic aspects...

The Inclusive Growth and Development Report 2017

Around the world, no bigger policy challenge preoccupies leaders than expanding social participation in the process and benefits of economic growth. The report, which covers 109 economies...

Realizing Human Potential in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Three major trends are affecting how human capital is developed and deployed around the world.

Bridging Skills and Innovation Gaps in Latin America: Country Implementation of the Competitiveness Lab

Making progress on competitiveness, the factors and institutions that determine productivity and future prosperity, requires multistakeholder engagement and coordinated efforts with gover...

The Global Gender Gap Report 2016

The Global Information Technology Report 2016

Please note that the 2016 Global Information Technology Report is the last edition of the series. There are no updates available.

Closing the Economic Gender Gap: Learning from the Gender Parity Task Forces

In the 10 years since the World Economic Forum began measuring the economic gender gap it has narrowed by only 3% globally. In addition to the individual actions of employers and governme...

Human Capital Outlook: Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

The Fourth Industrial Revolution will disrupt business models and bring both challenges and opportunities to labour markets over the next five years, with enormous change predicted in the...

The Future of Jobs

The Annual Meeting is taking place in Davos from 20 to 23 January, under the theme “Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution”. Stay up-to-date with all of the key developments on our li...

Inclusive Growth Report 2015

Around the world, no bigger policy challenge preoccupies leaders than expanding social participation in the process and benefits of economic growth. The report, which covers 112 economies...

Africa Competitiveness Report 2015

The Africa Competitiveness Report was first published in 1998 and has, since 2007, been a biennial project highlighting areas that require policy action and investment to ensure Africa’s ...

Bridging the Skills and Innovation Gap to Boost Productivity in Latin America The Competitiveness Lab

The Competitiveness Lab seeks to achieve this by designing competitiveness strategies, defining policies in specific areas of competitiveness and facilitating public-private collaborations.