Agenda Dialogues

The year 2023 is the hottest on record - 1.48°C above the pre-industrial averages - propelling economies and societies into unprecedented and risky territory. Leaders are increasingly called upon to t...

20 Jan 202449min

As technology becomes increasingly intertwined in our daily lives and important for driving development and prosperity, questions of safety, human interaction and trust become critical to addressing b...

18 Jan 202446min

From the advent of smartphone apps to novel incentive structures on social media, the latest technological advances mark a change in the nature of childhood in recent years, removing limits to screen ...

18 Jan 202430min

Long-standing economic tenets are being challenged by ongoing shocks, geo-economic tensions and supply chain reconfigurations. How can we adapt to changing economic realities, to ensure long-term and ...

18 Jan 202448min

Global cooperation has been critical for the impressive expansion of well-being and opportunities in the past 70 years. Yet these gains are at risk from the uneven impacts of continuous shocks to trad...

17 Jan 202444min

While tackling inflation, higher interest rates have wider repercussions: slowing down growth, increasing pressure on global markets, creating debt sustainability risks and changing the nature of inve...

14 Jan 202446min

World Economic Forum Founder Klaus Schwab and Ajay Banga, President of the World Bank Group and Member of the Forum's Board of Trustees, share their aspirations before the Forum's Annual Meeting 2024....

9 Jan 202420min

An intensifying climate crisis, fragile global economy, and the emergence of critical questions around frontier technologies are converging against the backdrop of a deteriorating security landscape t...

6 Des 202346min