Top 10 trends

1 Deepening income inequality

2 Persistent jobless growth

3 Lack of leadership

4 Rising geostrategic competition

5 The weakening of representative democracy

6 Rising pollution in the developing world

7 Increasing occurrence of severe weather events

8 Intensifying nationalism

9 Increasing water stress

10 Growing importance of health in the economy

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Ebola: containing the spread

Immigration in focus

Regional challenges

Middle East & North Africa

Europe

Asia

North America

Sub-Saharan Africa

Latin America

Tension points: Assessing the state of geopolitics

Global leadership & governance

A call to lead:
the essential qualities
for stronger leadership

Global
leadership
index

New governance
architecture: strategies to
change the way we lead

LGBT:
Moving towards
equality

Future agenda

Synthetic biology:
Designing our existence?

Brain-computer interaction:
Transforming our networked future?

Deep sea mining:
The new resource frontier?

Emerging nuclear powers:
A safe path to energy security?

The evolution of
monetary policy:
A new era for central banks?

The future of
education

The future of
work

The future of the
internet

Welcome from
Klaus Schwab

Introduction by
Martina Larkin

Making the Outlook on the Global Agenda 2015

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