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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.
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.
McKinsey Global Institute: 2024 in charts
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Here are some of the McKinsey Global Institute’s favorite data visualizations from 2024.
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 $29 trillion to $48 trillion in revenues by 2040.
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 economic fabric connecting all businesses can maximize their potential.
Time to place our bets: Europe’s AI opportunity
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Boosting Europe’s competitiveness across the AI value chain.
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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Confronting Asia’s new demographic reality
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Falling birth rates have become a hot topic around the world, and nowhere are they falling faster than in advanced economies in Asia. Together with China, these economies are undergoing a demographic wave that will soon wash over other nations, write Anu Madgavkar and Gautam Kumra in Bloomberg.
How companies can empower more people with their current investments
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Despite progress in reducing extreme poverty, about 60 percent of the global population—4.7 billion people, including an estimated 70 million in the United States and 200 million in other high-income countries—live below the economic empowerment line. This yardstick, developed by the McKinsey Global Institute, measures if individuals’ essential needs are being met. It defines a standard basket of basic goods and services for a frugal yet decent quality of life —including country-specific costs for adequate housing, food, healthcare, education, transportation, and a small amount of emergency savings, writes Kweilin Ellingrud in Forbes.