China’s Great Rebalancing Continues
China is rapidly exiting its high-growth development phase driven by industrial investment and exports. Going forward, it needs to go
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Globalization
Managing the Global Water Crisis
For over a decade, the Trends editors have been watching the global water crisis unfold. The supply-demand situation has been
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The World’s “Most Important” Problems
We live in an era of widespread national and global despair. Today’s problems seem too large, and we seem to
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The Unfolding Economic Miracle in Israel
Israel is a tiny desert country, despised by its neighbors. Yet, in its short 65-year history, it has become a
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A New China Emerges from the Old
Since roughly 1978, China has come further, faster, than any country in history. As a result, its new generation of
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Techno-Phobes and Famine Fanatics
At least since the days of Thomas Malthus, a steady chorus of opinion-makers has routinely put forward the case that
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The Global Pursuit of Talent
Today’s global “battle for talent” is likely to determine which economy dominates the 21st century. Why is that so important?
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