World Economic Forum (WEF) Research [to 31 January 2015]

Editor’s Note:
The World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos ran from 21 – 24 January 2015. We will provide an overview of key results n our next edition. WEF publishes reports throughout the year – including its Global Competitiveness Report, Global Risks Report and Global Gender Gap Report – but releases a number of additional studies just before the annual Davos meeting, We present a quick inventory of reports released over the last two weeks.

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The Global Risks report 2015
15 Jan 2015 :: 69 pages
[pdf: http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Global_Risks_2015_Report.pdf ]
The 2015 edition of the Global Risks report completes a decade of highlighting the most significant long-term risks worldwide, drawing on the perspectives of experts and global decision-makers.

Over that time, analysis has moved from risk identification to thinking through risk interconnections and the potentially cascading effects that result.
Taking this effort one step further, this year’s report underscores potential causes as well as solutions to global risks.

Not only do we set out a view on 28 global risks in the report’s traditional categories (economic, environmental, societal, geopolitical and technological) but also we consider the drivers of those risks in the form of 13 trends.

In addition, we have selected initiatives for addressing significant challenges, which we hope will inspire collaboration among business, government and civil society communities.
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Beyond Supply Chains Empowering Responsible Value Chains
24 Jan 2015
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Bridging the Skills and Innovation Gap to Boost Productivity in Latin America The Competitiveness Lab
23 Jan 2015
The Competitiveness Lab seeks to achieve this by designing competitiveness strategies, defining policies in specific areas …
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Project MainStream – a global collaboration to accelerate the transition towards the circular economy
23 Jan 2015
Project MainStream is an initiative of the World Economic Forum, in collaboration with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation with McKinsey …
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Data-Driven Development Pathways for Progress
23 Jan 2015
Written by the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Data-Driven Development, this report serves to clarify how big data can …
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Enabling Trade: Increasing the Potential of Trade Reforms
23 Jan 2015
Efforts to eliminate trade barriers are high and we can observe a 39% level of implementation of trade facilitation measures. The news …
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Health Systems Leapfrogging in Emerging Economies: From Concept to Scale-up and System Transformation
22 Jan 2015
Developed by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with the Boston Consulting Group, Health Systems Leapfrogging in …
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Building Foundations Against Corruption Recommendations on Anti-Corruption in the Infrastructure & Urban Development Industries
19 Jan 2015
Bribery and corruption exist across all industries, but the engineering, construction and real estate sectors are particularly at …
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Benchmarking Inclusive Growth and Development: Discussion Paper
19 Jan 2015
Rising income inequality is often the cause of social and political unrest and is damaging to our future economic well-being. …