The global supply chain continues to sputter and break down more than two years into the pandemic. Each day comes news of choked ports, out-of-place shipping containers, record freight rates, and other problems that cause disruption and defy easy answers. Unless you’re the one waging the...
The past two years have delivered a steady stream of bad news about our fragile planet, income inequality, vaccine inequity and a host of other problems that seem intractable. The daily doom and gloom about climate change, job losses and lack of access to COVID vaccines feeds our sense of anxiety, v...
WTO chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says we’ve entered an era of “re-globalization.” By that, she means companies are de-concentrating production to guard against the supply chain turmoil caused by the COVID pandemic and the war in Ukraine. Businesses are choosing redundancy and resiliency over...
Nothing illustrates today’s supply chain craziness like the world’s sudden glut of shipping containers. A few months ago, shippers were paying record ocean freight rates that were five to 10 times higher than pre-pandemic levels as the result of a capacity crunch and a global shortage of contai...
There are plenty of flashing lights warning us of the possibility of a sharp economic slowdown in 2023. We know that COVID-19 has reversed years of progress in global development. It has widened gaps in education, health, income and access to opportunity. It brought on the steepest economi...
There can’t be a time in human memory when travel, shipping, trade and commerce have been jolted as badly by severe weather and extreme climate events as in recent months. In China this past summer, scorching heat forced power cuts and factory shutdowns. Apple, Foxconn, Toyota, Volkswage...
As the COVID-19 pandemic wanes, policymakers and corporate leaders have arrived at a long overdue conclusion: small business really matters. There’s a consensus that smaller enterprises are critical to the world’s two most pressing challenges. The first of these is how to spur broad-based, equit...
As I head to Saudi’s FII conference, known as “Davos in the Desert” this week, I am reflecting on the pace of change I’ve personally witnessed in KSA. Saudi Arabia’s progress in its journey to becoming a Tier 1 global logistics hub has been impressive. It’s clear the Kingdom is already&n...
By most measures, women are making steady gains in professional opportunity, pay and status and decision-making power at work. Their progress, while slow and uneven, is reflected in economic empowerment indexes put out by the OECD, World Health Organization, UN agencies and ...
Powering the grid Power generation is the leading source of carbon dioxide emissions. The International Energy Agency recently sent hearts aflutter with the news that “unstoppable” low-carbon technologies have global fossil fuel use on track to peak much earlier than expected...