This book presents Harry S. Dent Jr.’s predictions of a looming major economic downturn based on demographic, financial, and market-cycle analysis. Dent argues that structural shifts in consumer spending, aging populations, and excessive debt will trigger a global economic crash and reshape financial markets. The book provides strategic guidance for investors and individuals seeking to naviga…
A Brief History of the Future by Jacques Attali presents an ambitious and provocative analysis of humanity’s likely trajectory throughout the twenty-first century. Drawing from economics, geopolitics, technology, philosophy, and cultural studies, Attali outlines major global transformations—including shifts in political power, economic restructuring, technological breakthroughs, and evolvin…
The World Economic Forum is an independent, international organization committed to improving the state of the world. The Forum provides a collaborative framework for the world's leaders to address global issues, engaging particularly its corporate members in global citizenship. Drawing on its unparalleled Asian network, this book offers a fascinating insight into how the region is managing …
Asian Megatrends assesses the key drivers impacting Asia over the next two decades. The rise of China is transforming the Asia-Pacific, as China’s economic and military might increasingly reverberates throughout the region. India and Indonesia are also rising Asian powers that are changing the shape of the Asian economic landscape. The rapid growth of emerging Asian consumer markets is becomi…
In Global Paradox, John Naisbitt explores the new global environment of the 1990s and the enormous opportunities and challenges that countries, businesses and individuals will face in this period of growth and transformation at the end of the millennium.
In Global Paradox, John Naisbitt explores the new global environment of the 1990s and the enormous opportunities and challenges that countries, businesses and individuals will face in this period of growth and transformation at the end of the millennium.
In The World in 2020, acclaimed commentator and best-selling author Hamish McRae paints a vivid competitive landscape in which culture and values will be the new sources of advantage for the industrialized nations. In the year 2020, all having embraced market capitalism, the North American, European and East Asian countries will be engaged in fierce economic competition. With each nation increa…
The club of Rome was founded in 1968, the year of the great divide which marked the end, as well as the zenith, of the headlong post-war period of economic growth in the industrialized world. At present, the Club comprises one hundred individuals from fifty-three countries. It has no political ambition.
This report summarizes the views of participants on these broad conceptual issues, as well as their animated debate on more immediate matters like the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA), Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC), and the East Asian Economic Caucus (EAEC).
Analyzing some of the major influences on foreign and security policy in India, this synthesis of insights assesses emerging global scenarios from an Indian perspective and details their likely impact on India's current and future national interests. This study first uses the Net Assessment method to detail the scenarios_that the country will face in 2020 and then utilizes a transparent method …