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With emerging economies slowing, developed countries' middle classes being squeezed like never before, and policymakers seemingly incapable of coordinating meaningful solutions to global challenges, participants at this year’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos have a full agenda. Read what they have to say about global finance, development, technology, and growing inequality worldwide.

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  1. The Road to Car Safety

    The Road to Car Safety

    Jan 28, 2014 Carlos Ghosn describes what is needed to improve automobiles' safety, sustainability, and affordability.

  2. The Decline of Upward Mobility

    The Decline of Upward Mobility

    Jan 24, 2014 Richard Haass cautions against responses to growing inequality that merely shift wealth, rather than creating it.

  3. The Zero-Emissions Imperative
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    The Zero-Emissions Imperative

    Jan 24, 2014 Angel Gurría says that nothing short of a post-carbon economy by the second half of this century can stop catastrophic climate change.

  4. Rethinking Pharmaceutical Business Models

    Rethinking Pharmaceutical Business Models

    Jan 23, 2014 Joseph Jimenez describes how drug companies can meet the world's dramatically changing health-care needs.

  5. Japan’s New Dawn

    Japan’s New Dawn

    Jan 23, 2014 Abe Shinzō links economic recovery in Japan to improved prospects for global peace and prosperity.

  6. Europe’s Top-Down Myopia

    Europe’s Top-Down Myopia

    Jan 22, 2014 Katinka Barysch argues that the European Union's top-down approach to institutional reform seeks to solve problems that have largely been addressed already.

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    Trump’s Enablers on the Supreme Court

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    Navigating Major Transitions in an Uncertain Economy

    Mohamed A. El-Erian explains how to recalibrate expectations in the face of yet another forecasting failure.
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    Must Democratizing the Media Be Bad for Democracy?

    Carsten Brosda proposes a strategy to defend the digital public square against manipulation and algorithmic distortion.
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    Central Banks in a Cashless World

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    With cashless transactions rapidly replacing physical cash, central banks have an opportunity to serve the public interest by providing or shaping the infrastructure on which digital-payment systems are built. But to do so effectively, they will have to abandon outdated assumptions and re-imagine their own roles.

     explain why policymakers should become more involved in shaping or creating digital-payments infrastructure.
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    Governments Must Step Up to Prevent Cervical Cancer

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    The Perils of Retirement in America

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    Fifty Years of Immunization Success Call for 50 More

    Sania Nishtar touts the remarkable results of global collaboration on routine vaccination and foresees continued progress.

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