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The Centre for the New Economy and Society (CNES) aims to shape prosperous, resilient and equitable economies and societies that create opportunity for all. The Centre creates new insights and develops systems change initiatives across four areas:
1.Economic Growth, Revival and Transformation
2.Work, Wages and Job Creation
3.Education, Skills and Learning
4.Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice
Our work impacts the lives and livelihoods of millions of people globally and provides blueprints for scaling best-in-class approaches. Through collaboration, stakeholders deepen their understanding of complex issues, shape new models and standards and drive scalable, collaborative action for systemic change. The Centre also houses the Forum’s global risks practice, providing risks analysis across a range of topics pertinent to the global agenda.
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The Centre creates new insights and develops initiatives or alliances across four areas. Explore Projects by these 4 action areas
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ECONOMIC GROWTH, REVIVAL AND TRANSFORMATION
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WORK, WAGES AND JOB CREATION
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EDUCATION, SKILLS AND LEARNING
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DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
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Global Parity Alliance
Accelerating Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Outcomes The Global Parity Alliance is a cross-industry group of global organizations that are taking holistic action to accelerate diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&...
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Good Work Alliance
OverviewThe Good Work Alliance is a global, cross-industry initiative for forward-thinking companies, with input from unions and independent experts, to leverage their individual and collective power towards building ...
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The SkillsLink Alliance
Making skills the currency of the labour marketThe SkillsLink Alliance is an ecosystem of partnerships between learning providers, employers and governments designed to operationalize the Reskilling Revolution and shi...
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Partnering for Racial Justice in Business
OverviewThe Partnering for Racial Justice in Business initiative is a global coalition of organizations and their C-suite leaders committed to leveraging their individual and collective power to build equitable and ju...
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Shaping the Markets of Tomorrow
How can we drive economic transformation? In order to achieve the twin objectives of generating economic prosperity and addressing key societal and environmental challenges, our economies will need to transition to a ...
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The Skills Consortium
ContextThe World Economic Forum’s New Economy and Society Platform aims to work with its partners to provide better education, skills and jobs to 1 billion people by 2030. The urgency around this agenda has been given...
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Closing the Gender Gap Accelerators
Gender parity in education and employment is critical for economic growth and societal cohesion. The World Economic Forum estimates that at the current rate of progress, it will take 267.6 years to close the economic ...
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Closing the Gender Gap Accelerator Chile
It is now widely accepted that gender parity in education and employment is critical for economic growth and societal cohesion. According to the estimates of the Global Gender Gap Report 2020, the Latin America and th...
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Closing the Gender Gap Accelerator Colombia
It is now widely accepted that gender parity in education and employment is critical for economic growth and societal cohesion. According to the estimates of the Global Gender Gap Report 2020, the Latin America and th...
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Closing the Gender Gap Accelerator Dominican Republic
It is now widely accepted that gender parity in education and employment is critical for economic growth and societal cohesion. According to the estimates of the Global Gender Gap Report 2020, the Latin America and th...
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Closing the Gender Gap Accelerator Egypt
Egypt is home to 48.7 million women, and improvements to their conditions will have a significant impact on the country’s economic and social progress. Whilst Egypt has shown steady improvement on educational attainme...
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Closing the Gender Gap Accelerator Costa Rica
It is now widely accepted that gender parity in education and employment is critical for economic growth and societal cohesion. According to the estimates of the Global Gender Gap Report 2020, the Latin America and th...
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The Valuable 500 - Closing the Disability Inclusion Gap
Accelerating Disability Inclusion through the Power of Business LeadershipThe World Economic Forum Platform for Shaping the Future of the New Economy and Society aims to close the disability inclusion gap by driving b...
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Competitiveness and Innovation Accelerator Western Balkans
On a journey to transform their economies, generate growth and create high-quality and sustainable jobs, the six Western Balkans economies (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Se...
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Closing the Innovation Gap Accelerators
Innovation is the driver of competitiveness where the world has made least progress. As the Fourth Industrial Revolution unfolds, its benefits remain concentrated to few pockets of excellence and innovation ecosystems...
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Accelerating Education 4.0
ContextOver 50% of the current workforce will require reskilling by 2025. Yet the ability to adapt to change and engage in lifelong learning must be developed from an early age. Studies show that early investments in ...
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Preparing for the Future of Work in Advanced Manufacturing
As part of the cross-industry Preparing for the Future of Work initiative, the Advanced Manufacturing Industry Taskforce is high-Level community of Chief Human Resource Officers, policy makers, experts, Technology Pio...
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Partnership for Global LGBTI Equality (PGLE)
Accelerating LGBTI Equality through the Power of Business LeadershipThe Partnership for Global LGBTI Equality (PGLE) is a coalition of organizations committed to leveraging their individual and collective advocacy to ...
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