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Africa's youth: jobs or migration? Demography, economic prospects and mobility

This 2019 report explores the demography, economic prospects, and mobility of Africa's youth, focusing on jobs and migration.

11 October 2019
Mo Ibrahim Foundation
Report

The future of work in America: People and places, today and tomorrow

"The health of local economies today will affect their ability to adapt and thrive in the automation age" (Lund et. al., 2019).

11 July 2019
Susan Lund, James Manyika, Liz Hilton Segel, André Dua, Bryan Hancock, Scott Rutherford, and Brent Macon
McKinsey & Company
Report

Inequality: A persisting challenge and its implications

While the wealth gap has narrowed globally, inequality within advanced economies has increased since the 1980s.

26 June 2019
David Fine, James Manyika, Pal Erik Sjatil, Karim Tadjeddine, Tilman Tacke, and Maggie Desmond
McKinsey & Company
Report

Asia’s future is now

Asia is on track to top 50 percent of global GDP by 2040 and drive 40 percent of the world’s consumption, "representing a real shift in the world’s center of gravity" (Tonby et. al., 2019).

14 June 2019
Oliver Tonby, Jonathan Woetzel, Wonsik Choi, Jeongmin Seong, and Patti Wang
McKinsey & Company
Report

A new look at the declining labor share of income in the United States

Globalization, technology, and other often-cited factors may not be the main causes of the declining labor share of income.

22 May 2019
James Manyika, Jan Mischke, Jacques Bughin, Jonathan Woetzel, Mekala Krishnan, and Samuel Cudre
McKinsey & Company
Report

Latin America’s missing middle of midsize firms and middle-class spending power

Digital could help the region reboot inclusive growth and regain lost ground.

13 May 2019
Jaana Remes, Andres Cadena, Alberto Chaia, Vijay Gosula, Jacques Bughin, James Manyika, Jonathan Woetzel, Nicolas Grosman, Tilman Tacke, and Kevin Russell
McKinsey & Company
Report

Who Influences whom in the policy arena? Statisticians seek greater voice

“Propelled by national demand for greater access to and control over Big Data, panelists at the seminar on financing data and statistics side event were asked how National Statistical Offices (NSOs) could be better supported in “their institutional transformation from producers of statistics to data stewards.” (Adams and Judd, 2019).

25 March 2019
Barbara Adams, Karen Judd
Global Policy Forum, Social Watch
Paper

A Fatal Attraction?

This paper examined the 50th Session of the UN Statistical Commission and the theme of “the often tense interface between data and policy-making and the asymmetrical power dynamics that shape it” (Adams and Judd, 2019).

11 February 2019
Karolin Seitz
Bischöfliches Hilfswerk MISEREOR, Brot für die Welt-Evangelisches Werk für Diakonie und Entwicklung e.V., Global Policy Forum
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Globalization in transition: The future of trade and value chains

"Global value chains are being reshaped by rising demand and new industry capabilities in the developing world as well as a wave of new technologies" (Lund et. al., 2019).

16 January 2019
Susan Lund, James Manyika, Jonathan Woetzel, Jacques Bughin, Mekala Krishnan, Jeongmin Seong, and Mac Muir
McKinsey & Company
Report

What you get for your dollar

“This briefing paper provides an overview of the approach underlying EA” and “concludes that policy makers...must instead concentrate on understanding the confounding structural causes of interdependent global challenges and aim at their long-term solution, within an overarching human rights framework” (Seitz 2019).

11 January 2019
Karolin Seitz
Bischöfliches Hilfswerk MISEREOR, Evangelisches Werk für Diakonie und Entwicklung - Brot für die Welt, Global Policy Forum
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