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Tough trade-offs: How time and career choices shape the gender pay gap
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Nearly 80 percent of the US gender pay gap is driven by women having flatter work experience arcs compared with men, based on...
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Geopolitics and the geometry of global trade: 2025 update
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Trade reconfiguration continues along geopolitical lines, this update with 2024 data shows.
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Dependency and depopulation? Confronting the consequences of a new demographic reality
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Exploring the implications of a new demographic reality brought on by falling fertility and increasing longevity.
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Economic empowerment made-to-measure: How companies can benefit more people
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Connections, contexts, and capabilities can guide corporate efforts to create empowerment impact efficiently.
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McKinsey Global Institute: 2024 in charts
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Here are some of the McKinsey Global Institute’s favorite data visualizations from 2024.
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The next big arenas of competition
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Arenas are industries that transform the business landscape. Eighteen future arenas could reshape the global economy and generate...
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America’s small businesses: Time to think big
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US micro-, small, and medium-size enterprises, like their global counterparts, struggle with productivity. But a win–win...
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Time to place our bets: Europe’s AI opportunity
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Boosting Europe’s competitiveness across the AI value chain.
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Help wanted: The long-term labor tightening trend by country
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Labor markets in the world’s eight largest economies have tightened significantly since 2010, although the character and...
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The hard stuff: Navigating the physical realities of the energy transition
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The energy transition is a physical transformation in its early stages. What challenges lie ahead?
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Help wanted: Charting the challenge of tight labor markets in advanced economies
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For almost two decades, labor markets across advanced economies have tightened—and the trend is set to continue. This article...

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