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Bookmark or Share- 5 things I learned on the future of global finance at Davos 2024Sitting across more than 35 private meetings and panels, I came to better understand the mindset of businesses, investors and policy-makers. Here are five of my takeaways from Davos 2024: 1. Artificial intelligence remains between hopes and fears. Alongside geopolitics, the most discussed topic at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting was ...
- What are the 10 biggest global challenges? | World Economic ForumHere is a guide to the 10 challenges, and why they matter to the world. Food security and why it matters. By 2050, the world must feed 9 billion people. Yet the demand for food will be 60% greater than it is today. The United Nations has set ending hunger, achieving food security and improved nutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture as ...
- These are the biggest global risks we face in 2024 and beyondFrom disinformation to inflation, these are the world's most pressing risks. The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2024 says the biggest short-term risk stems from misinformation and disinformation. In the longer term, climate-related threats dominate the top 10 risks global populations will face.
- ESG: How can we improve sustainable finance?Image: Unsplash/Scott Graham. Sustainable finance is the practice of taking environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations into account when making investment decisions. Today investment funds that use ESG have more than $50 trillion in capital and are growing fast. A recent article in The Economist mentions that an average of two ...
- Global debt is at $307 trillion. Why does it matter ... - World ...Global debt is borrowing by governments, businesses and people, and it’s at dangerously high levels. In 2021, global debt reached a record $303 trillion, a further jump from what was record global debt in 2020 of $226 trillion, as reported by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its Global Debt Database. This was the biggest one-year debt ...
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