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US fiscal activism is reshaping the economic landscape—but not without cost. The July 2025 passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill widened the deficit...
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The June strategy macro brief highlights how immigration is reshaping growth trajectories. In the US, immigrants drove 15% of consumer...
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The May strategy macro brief examines consumer spending under strain. In the US, households face eroding purchasing power as savings buffers deplete and...
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Gen AI improved efficiency by enabling patterns to surface more quickly and scaling analysis, improving the quality of information for decision-making ...
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The economic impact of the new US tariff regime is likely to be substantial. For example, the additional cost imposed on the average US household from...
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AI, autonomous agents and robotics are reshaping the nature and economics of work. Joint research by Accenture and the Wharton School...
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This issue of the Chief Economists Report published regularly by The World Economic Forum, expects 2025 to bring slower global growth...
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Despite significant investments in various technologies in recent years, most companies are not yet seeing the payoff in terms of higher productivity...
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US tariff hikes in early 2025—raising the effective tariff rate from 2.4% to an estimated 25%—have triggered inflationary pressure, global uncertainty...
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From transforming operational efficiency to driving innovation, AI and gen AI are revolutionizing how businesses create, compete and capture value...
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Global debt is rising—and with it, the risk to economic stability. Over 50 developing countries now spend more on debt interest than education or health...
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Companies in APAC have a significant opportunity: Total
enterprise reinvention could unlock up to $4.5 trillion in
enterprise value. However, many are still...
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AI’s promise is no longer the point; proof is. This white paper, informed by hundreds of organizations applying to the World Economic Forum’s MINDS (Meaningful, Intelligent, Novel, Deployable Solutions) programme, examines...
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US tariff hikes in early 2025—raising the effective tariff rate from 2.4% to an estimated 25%—have triggered inflationary pressure, global uncertainty...
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For many growing companies, operations become so complex and layered that decision-making slows to a crawl. Costs, meanwhile, can get embedded so deeply in processes and workflows...
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Over the past decade, markets experienced a great value migration, as $27 trillion in enterprise value changed hands...
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This report, published in partnership with IE University, examines the cocoa, coffee and sugarcane industries to understand how African economies can use AI to move up global agricultural value chains...
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Published by the World Governments Summit in collaboration with Accenture, this report examines how AI can help governments accelerate climate action amid widening gaps between climate commitments and real-world outcomes...
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US tariff hikes in early 2025—raising the effective tariff rate from 2.4% to an estimated 25%—have triggered inflationary pressure, global uncertainty...
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The Global South hosts more than 23,000 AI startups, yet has received only $12.1 billion in funding compared with $108.3 billion in the Global North...
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CEOs increasingly treat sustainability as a driver of growth and resilience: in a survey of nearly 2,000 leaders across 128 countries, 88% say the business case is stronger than five years ago...
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