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and services through global supply chains, which in turn enable everyone to eat, work, move about, and live their lives., Digital trade enables a process that currently takes 12–15 days to be executed flawlessly in 48–72 hours. , There is a big caveat: Globalization and world trade have, over the past 40 years, produced immense growth but also two massive global challenges: a widening wealth and economic opportunity gap, as well as a deepening climate problem.

l that we may be about to enter a shift in eras. War, sanctions, disrupted supply chains, and blocs have all become part of our everyday vocabulary., We should recognize that the Asia-Pacific region sits in the middle of many global macro fault lines. , Three Macro Trends To understand the key forces acting on the Asia-Pacific region today, we should recognize that it sits in the middle of many global macro fault lines, with three particularly notable trends emerging.

reatment, and trust that our doctors have all the information they need to treat us as unique individuals. That is the promise of genomic medicine., An estimated 65 million human genomes are expected to be sequenced by 2025. , Take, for example, a critically ill baby in intensive care where doctors are struggling to find a diagnosis.

nd disruption, the recent periods of turbulence and the pandemic made this necessity abundantly clear., To further succeed, one needs to be agile and able to move at multiple speeds across three horizons. , Optimizing for Today: Less Is More

on, modern slavery, inequality, climate disasters, pandemics., Hope and conviction may be the only strategy. Collective action and innovation will be our currency. , When speaking with business leaders, I’ve often heard (and sometimes repeated) that “hope isn’t a strategy.” This is, of course, meant to be a warning against sloppy planning.

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s of remission and relapse.

heads of sovereign wealth funds, philanthropists and other leaders for its second annual Asia Summit, in Singapore.

demographic phenomenon may have profoundly adverse impacts on their economies.

ial crisis, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have not fared as well.