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While we have particular views on many issues on the Global Agenda, and have commissioned and will continue to promote research into questions affecting these, we are also conscious of the valuable work being done by many other institutions and researchers, some of whom have decades of experience in grappling with aspects of these challenging topics.

In this section of the site – Other Voices – by far the largest of all, we offer a wide cross-section of views and insights.

The Organization of the Future: Enabled by General AI, driven by People

Posted Oct 03, 2023| by McKinsey&Company

Technologists keep reminding us that generative AI is only in its nascent stages of development and usage. This smart technology is only going to get more intelligent - and those who fail to work with it, starting now, will be left behind, warn Sandra Durth... Read More

Virtual Worlds: Balancing European Regulation and Industrial Policy for the Metaverse

Posted on Oct 09, 2023 | in category: Delivering sustainable economic growth | by CSDS Policy Brief,

The new European Commission strategy, “Virtual Worlds” aims to use a mix of regulation and industrial policy to close the gap with the United States and China in digital technologies. In this CSDS Policy Brief, Antonio Calcara analyses the new strategy to indicate how the... Read More

Indispensable Leverage: How the EU can Build its Technological Edge

Posted on Sep 29, 2023 | in category: Delivering sustainable economic growth | by European Council on Foreign Relations

Technology is at the heart of a great power struggle. To stand its ground, the EU must not only de-risk its trade ties, but advance its technological edge to build geo-economic leverage, suggest Tobias Gehrke and Julian Ringhof in their article for the European Council... Read More

The IPEF: Japan’s Economic Realism and Approach to Indo-Pacific Engagement, Resilience, and Rule-Setting

Posted on Oct 10, 2023 | in category: Delivering sustainable economic growth | by Institute of South-Asian Studies

The use of nationalism in both China and Japan to consolidate political support for the current leadership makes it difficult for political leaders to conduct bilateral relations with an economic focus. Stephen Nagy suggests in his article for the Institute of South-Asian Studies that Japan... Read More

Securing Economic Development in a Climate-changed World

Posted on Oct 09, 2023 | in category: Delivering sustainable economic growth | by ODI

The effects of climate change, including actions to mitigate it, are reshaping development pathways around the world. Flows of natural resources and ecosystem services, traded goods and services, investment and ideas, as well as migration and travel, are shifting, warn Mark Miller, Jodie Keane, and... Read More

Technology Cooperation in an Era of Multipolarity

Posted on Sep 29, 2023 | in category: Delivering sustainable economic growth | by Turkish Policy Quarterly

A common Western notion was that increased openness and exchange would drive the world towards democracy. After 30 years, it is clear that the world is moving differently, suggests Tommy Shih in his article in the Turkish Policy Quarterly. Seventy percent of the world’s population... Read More

Countries That Close Gender Gaps See Substantial Growth Returns

Posted on Oct 03, 2023 | in category: Delivering sustainable economic growth | by International Monetary Fund

With global growth predicted to languish at just three percent over the next five years and with traditional growth engines sputtering, many economies are missing out by not tapping women’s potential. Only 47 percent of women are active in today’s labour markets, compared with 72... Read More

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