Rosamond Hutt is a Senior Writer at Formative Content. Recoded to Forum Agenda on 29/05/2024.
Is there an end in sight to the global economy’s slowdown? Not yet, says the World Bank, which just cut its growth forecast because of a worse-than-predicted performance by commodity-expo...
In 2006, Facebook was in its infancy, Twitter was being launched, and nobody had iPhones. Ten years on, the world is a very different place, and so is the workplace.
There are plenty of ways to make the world a better place – but what could you do if you had $100 million?
Is it better to acquire a broad range of skills and experience across a range of disciplines, or to become an expert in one field? It’s a question that many of us ask ourselves. Not only ...
In 2001, Tony Fernandes signed a deal to buy a failing commercial airline for around 25 cents. Three days later, 9/11 happened: passenger numbers around the world fell 2.7%, and did not r...
From Singapore to Myanmar, countries across South-East Asia will need to equip their workforces for the rapid technological change that is sweeping through industries and economies.
The United States has reported the first case of a person carrying a bacteria resistant to an antibiotic of last resort – a development that could mean “the end of the road for antibiotics”.
If you’re reluctant to part with a pager or still send faxes you can rest assured that far from being obsolete, ageing technology is alive and well in some places – and even being used by...
Three decades of official health advice urging people in England to adopt low-fat, low-cholesterol diets has been “disastrous” for the fight against obesity, according to a new report, wh...
World leaders, politicians and aid officials have gathered in Turkey for the first World Humanitarian Summit in an unprecedented effort to shake up global responses to wars and disasters.
We know that women across the world live longer than men. But how much longer? Well, that depends on where they live. The World Health Organisation has released new data that shows the ge...
Unless governments do more to improve the quality of jobs, the UN’s goal of ending poverty by 2030 will not be met, a new report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) finds.
When it comes to leadership, women are bolder than men. This surprising finding by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman, CEO and president respectively of leadership consultancy Zenger/Folkman,...
Saudi Arabia has said it wants to end its "addiction to oil" with far-reaching reforms, and is now restructuring government departments to drive through plans for a post-petroleum era.
