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By 2030, the consumer class is expected to reach almost 5 billion people. This means 1.3 billion more people with increased purchasing power than today.

The shift of economic power from the established Western economies and Japan towards the emerging economies in the East and South is set to continue.

Increasing global connectedness will continue to foster the interaction among non-state actors beyond states capacity to control it, thus challenging in several ways traditional...

Income inequality among countries has been decreasing, while that within countries is increasing...

Eurostat, Employment and unemployment database Joint Research Centre, European Commission: Gonzalez Vazquez, I, et al, 2019, The changing nature of work and skills in the digital...

Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain technology and Ethereum concepts are creating new economic structures; over 850 cryptocurrencies with $145 trillion market cap are listed at a $5...

ESPAS - European Strategy and Policy Analysis System: ORBIS (Open Repository Base on International Strategic Studies) - continuously updated Global Trends to 2030...

Continued high GHG emissions would lead to mostly negative impacts for biodiversity, ecosystem services and economic development and amplify risks for livelihoods and for food and human security...

Source: McKinsey, (2015), Shifting tides: Global economic scenarios for 2015–25