This study outlines the status of livelihoods today, and explores emerging trends in the economy, technology, demography, environment, security and governance which could impact livelihoods in the future. it asks how we can build secure livelihoods; how societies will adapt to the coming...

The world has made good progress in improving global livelihoods. More than two billion people have emerged from extreme poverty over the last four decades. Other notable improvements include real increases in wages for unskilled workers, better life expectancy, greater gender equality and more...

Social enterprises are long-standing agents of inclusive growth and democratisation of the economic and social spheres, and they have proved resilient to economic adversity all the while addressing socio-economic challenges in innovative ways, re-integrating people back to the labour market, and...

Heutzutage kommen Produkte kaum mehr aus einem einzigen Land. Stattdessen erlauben es globale Wertschöpfungsketten einer schier unbegrenzten Anzahl von Volkswirtschaften, den Teil eines Herstellungsprozesses auszuführen, den sie am effizientesten liefern können. Diese Ketten sind Beweis...