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.
Tomorrow’s consumers will not easily be segmented. “High end” customers will sometimes buy cheap goods and “low end” seek the occasional luxury experience, say James Allen and Darrell Rigby The Campbell Soup Company has come face to face with its new competitors– and they use drive-through windows. When the $7 billion food giant enlisted scores…
The new negotiating patterns in the World Trade Organization are important not just for the pursuit of fairer farm trade, says Celso Amorim, but as a model for fairer international governance “But still mankind listened deeply To the harmony of the whole creation, And aligned every action to the greater order And not to the…
The interest of business in collective security is as great as that of national governments, according to Kofi Annan Future generations may well remember the early 21st century as a pivotal period in history. We are living through a time of unprecedented threats to our planet and to our collective hope to live in peace,…
Classical economics is wrong: we are not all rational agents. So empowering people to make their own investment decisions, like in private pensions, could result in catastrophe, say Daniel Kahneman, Terrance Odean and Brad Barber In a common nightmare, the pilot comes to the back of the plane and asks you to take the controls….
The EU is falling behind on its “Lisbon objective” of making Europe the most competitive economy in the world, admits José Manuel Barroso. Both Brussels and member-states need to play their part Europe has much to be proud of. The devastation of the first half of the 20th century has given place to an unprecedented…
Forget weapons of mass destruction: North Korea’s threat to its own people could be grounds enough for regime change, says Jasper Becker Small signs often portend big changes in closed societies, such as the secretive court of North Korea’s Kim dynasty. Portraits of Kim Jong Il have disappeared from key public buildings like the People’s…
With Turkey’s date for EU entry talks now set, the deeper questions about culture and identity have become louder than ever. But, says Seyla Benhabib, Europe lacks the leadership to deal honestly with multiculturalism At a recent meeting at the American Academy of Berlin, I asked Joschka Fischer, the German foreign minister, about the heated…
Vaccination is the best way to tackle AIDS, says Seth Berkley, but we must plan to ensure wide access once we find the vaccine AIDS is the greatest public health crisis of our time. More than 40 million people are now living with the human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) or full-blown acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS),…
Climate change is real, says Tony Blair, who has pledged to make it a top priority of Britain’s G8 presidency in 2005 and to secure the international agreement that is necessary to avert disaster Mankind’s effect on the environment, and in particular on climate change, is large and growing. From the start of the industrial…
As Britain takes up the presidencies of the G8 and the European Union, Gordon Brown calls on the rich world to step up efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals In the post-war era visionaries created the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and seized a powerful and unprecedented moment of opportunity. Then…
