GENEVA  —  In 2022, the COVID-19 pandemic and the myriad crises it spawned may finally start to recede. But even in that best-case scenario, a tsunami of new challenges, from the failure of climate action to the erosion of social cohesion, is within sight.

GENEVA — COVID-19 lockdowns may be gradually easing, but anxiety about the world’s social and economic prospects is only intensifying. There is good reason to worry: A sharp economic downturn has already begun, and we could be facing the worst depression since the 1930s.

GENEVA — After World War II, the international community came together to build a shared future. Now, it must do so again.

Of the myriad challenges the world faces today, perhaps the most overwhelming is how to shape the Fourth Industrial Revolution that began at the turn of the century.New technologies and approaches are merging the physical, digital and biological worlds in ways that will fundament

When financial policymakers attempt to promote economic growth, they almost invariably focus on looking for new ways to unleash capital. But although this approach may have worked in the past, it risks giving short shrift to the role that talent plays in generating and realising