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  • Report Highlights
    • The Risks-trends Interconnections Map 2017
    • The Global Risks Interconnections Map 2017
    • The matrix of top 5 risks from 2007 to 2017
    • The Global Risks Landscape 2017
    • Global Risks of Highest Concern for Doing Business 2017
      • Appendix C: The Executive Opinion Survey 2016: Views of the Business Community on the Global Risks of Highest Concern for Doing Business
    • Benchmarking Global Risks to Businesses 2017
  • Blogs and Opinions
  • Shareable Infographics
  • Video
  • Press Releases
  • FAQs
  • [–––Divider–––]
  • Preface
  • Foreword
  • Executive Summary
  • Introduction
  • Part 1 – Global Risks 2017
  • Part 2 - Social and Political Challenges
    • 2.1 Western Democracy in Crisis?
    • 2.2 Fraying Rule of Law and Declining Civic Freedoms: Citizens and Civic Space at Risk
    • 2.3 The Future of Social Protection Systems
  • Part 3: Emerging Technologies
    • 3.1 Understanding the Risk Landscape
    • 3.2 Assessing the Risk of Artificial Intelligence
    • 3.3 Physical Infrastructure Networks and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
  • Conclusion
  • [–––Divider–––]
  • Appendices
    • Appendix A: Description of Global Risks, Trends and Emerging Technologies 2017
    • Appendix B: Global Risks Perception Survey and Methodology 2016
  • Acknowledgements
  • Download as PDF
Global Risks Report 2017 Home Previous Next
  • Report Home
  • Report Highlights
    • The Risks-trends Interconnections Map 2017
    • The Global Risks Interconnections Map 2017
    • The matrix of top 5 risks from 2007 to 2017
    • The Global Risks Landscape 2017
    • Global Risks of Highest Concern for Doing Business 2017
      • Appendix C: The Executive Opinion Survey 2016: Views of the Business Community on the Global Risks of Highest Concern for Doing Business
    • Benchmarking Global Risks to Businesses 2017
  • Blogs and Opinions
  • Shareable Infographics
  • Video
  • Press Releases
  • FAQs
  • [–––Divider–––]
  • Preface
  • Foreword
  • Executive Summary
  • Introduction
  • Part 1 – Global Risks 2017
  • Part 2 - Social and Political Challenges
    • 2.1 Western Democracy in Crisis?
    • 2.2 Fraying Rule of Law and Declining Civic Freedoms: Citizens and Civic Space at Risk
    • 2.3 The Future of Social Protection Systems
  • Part 3: Emerging Technologies
    • 3.1 Understanding the Risk Landscape
    • 3.2 Assessing the Risk of Artificial Intelligence
    • 3.3 Physical Infrastructure Networks and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
  • Conclusion
  • [–––Divider–––]
  • Appendices
    • Appendix A: Description of Global Risks, Trends and Emerging Technologies 2017
    • Appendix B: Global Risks Perception Survey and Methodology 2016
  • Acknowledgements
  • Download as PDF

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The 12th edition of The Global Risks Report is published at a time when deep-rooted social and economic trends are manifesting themselves increasingly disruptively across the world. Persistent inequality, particularly in the context of comparative global economic weakness, risks undermining the legitimacy of market capitalism. At the same time, deepening social and cultural polarization risks impairing national decision-making processes and obstructing vital global collaboration. 

Technology continues to offer us the hope of solutions to many of the problems we face. But the pace of technological change is also having unsettling effects: these range from disrupting labour markets through automation to exacerbating political divisions by encouraging the creation of rigid communities of like-minded citizens. We need to become better at managing technological change, and we need to do it quickly.

Above all, we must redouble our efforts to protect and strengthen our systems of global collaboration. Nowhere is this more urgent than in relation to the environment, where important strides have been made in the past year but where much more remains to be done. This is a febrile time for the world. We face important risks, but also opportunities to take stock and to work together to find new solutions to our shared problems. More than ever, this is a time for all stakeholders to recognize the role they can play by exercising responsible and responsive leadership on global risks.

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