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  • Journalists at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, China.

    BRICS Reports: Faster Than The Censors

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    This article is part of a cooperation between Future Challenges and the Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI). SGI’s new study “Change Ahead? Sustainable Governance in the BRICS” examines policy making in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. We’ve asked five of our bloggers to tell us what they think about the reports. In China, social […]

  • Evening traffic on Le Thai To Street in Hanoi, Vietnam.

    Future Scenarios for Hanoi in 2035

    Researchers from the Asian Trends Monitoring (ATM) team took a look at alternative futures in Hanoi and developed four very different scenarios for how the city’s entrepreneurs would do in the year 2035. The Vietnamese capital is undergoing several drastic changes. The city’s look and feel are changing, and the […]

  • Elephant in Motion

    BRICS Reports: An Elephant In Motion

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    This article is part of a cooperation between Future Challenges and the Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI). SGI’s new study “Change Ahead? Sustainable Governance in the BRICS” examines policy making in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. We’ve asked five of our bloggers to tell us what they think about the reports. At the end of […]

  • Future Challenges Reader: Work in the Developing World

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    Today we have published the first Future Challenges Reader! The first volume comprises the lead article Work in the Developing World and five “Local Views” from our blogger network. We hope you’ll enjoy this first in a series of Future Challenges Readers. This volume is published under a Creative Commons CC […]

  • Transformation Thinkers Conference: Lessons Learned

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    The Berlin Wall and ThePianist (2002), a biographical war drama film were  my primary sources of information about Germany since 2003, derived  from my bachelors study in International Relations- war and genocide being my points of reference. This time my trip to the Transformation Thinkers Conference in Berlin, organized by the Bertelsmann […]