Stéphanie Thomson is a writer and editor at the World Economic Forum.
We’re a pessimistic bunch. Last year, pollsters asked people in 17 countries whether they thought the world was getting better or worse. In all but two countries – China and Indonesia – m...
We’ve all heard enough about the gender pay gap to know that women are paid less than men for the same work, right? Well, actually, that’s just one part of the story.
On 23 June, in a historic referendum, the British public made a decision that would reverberate across the world: they voted to leave the European Union. Within just a few hours of the ne...
Globalization. It’s a term we hear thrown around all the time – even more so since Britain voted to leave the EU in a decision that was widely seen as a rejection of globalization.
It’s a country as complex as it is vast, of contrasts and contradictions, with a history spanning 5,000 years. This can make China difficult for outsiders to understand. “Today’s China is...
On 23 June, the British public will be asked to cast their vote in a referendum that has been described as the most important collective decision in a generation: whether to remain in or ...
Today was the closing of the World Economic Forum on Latin America, which saw hundreds of leaders from the region come to the Colombian city of Medellín. Here is a snapshot of some of the...
“Venezuela is in terrible shape,” President Mauricio Macri of Argentina told participants at this year’s World Economic Forum on Latin America. His comment won’t come a surprise, even to ...
The first decade of the new millennium was good to Latin America: poverty rates fell, a solid middle class was born, economies were booming. And then progress stalled. Today, the region e...
This article was updated on 25 August 2016 after the peace deal signed between the Colombian government and the FARC.
“Cruel, inhuman, and degrading.” Those were the words used by a UN panel last week to refer to Ireland’s abortion laws, which it says subject women to suffering and discrimination. Descri...
It’s been a challenging couple of years for the international community. A stagnant global economy, tumbling commodity prices, rising populism, ongoing conflicts.
They produce more than half the world’s oxygen, create more than $128 billion in GDP annually, and hold 97% of the world’s water. Oceans are our lifeline. And yet we know so little about ...
You’ve heard it all before: the gender gap, whether in the world of politics, business or the arts, is real. While progress is still painfully slow, at least people – from presidential ca...
Britain has witnessed a spike in hate crimes in the wake of last week's referendum vote for "Brexit", with more than a hundred incidents of racial and xenophobic abuse reported.
