Year after year, the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum solidifies its role in sculpting the international agenda, pinpointing new and evolving issues and challenges, and bringing together influential figures for meaningful dialogues and initiatives. Similarly, Global Agenda aims to spearhead discussions and shape opinions on critical global issues. Striving to ignite thought and stir debate, it ensures balance and equity in its approach. The platform is dedicated to including diverse perspectives from all societal sectors.
In these times of profound uncertainty and complexity, long-established truths are now questioned. Scepticism, doubt, and apprehension have replaced the trust we once relied on. Ensuring that voices from various domains — business, civil society, and government — are heard and considered is more crucial than ever. Echoing the mission of the World Economic Forum, Global Agenda is committed to being a crucible for issue exploration, idea validation, and catalysing change.
The war on terror is now dependent on an imitative relationship between al-Qaeda and the US government, James Der Derian controversially argues Can the war on terror be won? Conceived as a struggle of good against evil, deploying new technologies of killing, and exacerbated through an unnecessary invasion, there is no end in sight. Defeating…
Michael Dell has built one of the world’s most successful companies by making personal computers to order. Here he explains his principles Over the past two decades, Dell has driven great successes for our customers and our employees around the world. Along the way, we’ve come to understand that the foundation of a great company…
Ged Davis is organizing his first Davos. Here he explains to Global Agenda’s Sophia Hoffmann how he set about this daunting task GLOBAL AGENDA The theme for the annual meeting is different every year. How do you decide what it will be? GED DAVIS The theme we choose is the one that best captures the…
Britain’s poor productivity record is only partly explained by less capital and poorer training, says Howard Davies. It seems Britons are badly managed too For about a quarter of a century, from the early 1960s through to the mid-1980s, the United Kingdom was, in economic terms, the sick man of Europe. Its growth rate lagged…
Businesses have yet to deal with rapid population ageing, says Denys Correll. The answer is to work longer Populations are ageing rapidly in many regions, especially in Japan and Europe. It is now a widely accepted fact. This trend has been accompanied by a worrying decline in labour force participation around the world over the…
The problem is not that the United States is spending too much, but that the rest of the world is spending too little, says Richard Cooper There are three sources of concern with the global economy right now: high oil prices, the large American current account deficit, and significant budget deficits in all the world’s…
Pakistan’s fortunes have turned around over the past five years. From international pariah to a member of the American-led coalition in the war on terror; from bankrupt state to a thriving economy. Much of this success can be attributed to Shaukat Aziz. A former investment banker, Aziz was Pakistan’s minister of finance until August 2004,…
America must now use its clout to push for peace. But, says Hanan Ashrawi, a just and lasting agreement will also require profound Palestinian reform – from within Any transition brings a degree of uncertainty and apprehension. But in this post-Arafat era, there are hopeful signs for both nation-building and peace-making. Yasser Arafat’s larger-than-life personality…
Despite expectations in the 20th century that religion was on the wane, says Karen Armstrong, fundamentalism has emerged as a backlash to secularism In the middle of the 20th century, it was generally assumed that secularism was the coming ideology and that religion would never again play a major role in world events. Today, religion…
The belief that the US cannot afford another conflict is misguided, says Ervand Abrahamian. Fuelled by mutual paranoia, the risk of war with Iran is growing The recent pledge by Iran to “suspend temporarily” the enrichment of uranium has merely postponed a likely major collision between the Islamic Republic and America – a confrontation that…
