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The second reason progress has lost credibility is that the digital revolution risks undermining the middle class that formed the backbone of the post-war societies of the world’s advanced economies.
For anyone who believes that progress should remain the compass guiding societies in the twenty-first century, the priority is to redefine it in today’s context and to spell out the corresponding policy agenda.
What advanced societies need now are social compacts that are resilient to demographic shifts, technological disruptions, and economic shocks.
Whether in New York, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Istanbul, or New Delhi, a feeling of unease and a desire for change has emerged in societies that are becoming increasingly unequal, and in which politics and business mix in non-transparent ways.
But right-wing populists have stoked fears and misconceptions about the number of people arriving in Europe – and about the effects of migration on our societies – to such an extent that their tactics are fueling political cleavages across the continent.
Second, there is a widespread belief that advanced economies’ urban elites – in government, the media, and business – are either uninterested or unable to address their societies’ most serious problems: economic inequality, banking crises, aging populations and overburdened social-security systems, terrorism, porous borders, rapidly changing community identities, and much else.
This will hurt our own societies, which are built on the principles of openness and freedom of expression.
With a highly contagious and lethal virus devastating poor and fragmented societies that distrust their leaders, business as usual is not enough.
Perhaps Western-style consumer societies offer too many choices, but Cuba provides far too few.
Our newly freed societies must now learn the languages of our constituent parts, just as we learned a new economic and political language.
Underdevelopment in post-colonial societies itself causes conflict.
All of this leaves future societies amazingly richer – but would be missed in green GDP measures.
For one thing, there is the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which promises to transform our economies and societies in fundamental ways.
Most Europeans – and many in other parts of the world – live in rapidly aging societies.
At the same time, images of life in our own societies are shifting.
History has not been kind to societies that lose trust in the integrity of their leaders and institutions.
Consider the Internet, which has had an enormous impact on societies worldwide, changing how we communicate, work, and occupy ourselves.
In other words, weak networks are part of the glue that holds diverse societies together.
But according to the Pew Forum, at least 10% of the world’s Christians – 200 million people in 133 countries – live in societies as a minority group.
A crucial next step is to bring together scientific, political, and business leaders from societies that share the problems of water scarcity – for example, Sudan, Pakistan, the US, Australia, Spain, and Mexico – to brainstorm about creative approaches to overcoming them.
The International Monetary Fund, the European Commission, and the European Central Bank are often viewed as such technocratic institutions – and as supporting the technocratic element within states and societies around the world.
Let the Blind ReadTORONTO – This is a decisive moment for sight-impaired people like me: men and women who are seeking to expand our minds and to contribute to the societies in which we live.
Online, what is good for business is not necessarily good for individuals or societies.
The report, described as “written by Arabs for Arabs,” had a clear influence on the regional development narrative and the way national elites talked about the problems facing their societies.
Given these findings, the 2015 report advises national, regional, and international progressive groups to support the forces of emancipation, which hold the key to finding homegrown solutions to the challenges of ensuring better governance, more productive economies, and more resilient societies.
These companies have become a part of the fabric of our societies.
So far, the Arab revolts have vindicated the assumption that, given the structure of most Arab societies, toppling secular autocracies inevitably means opening the door to Islamic democracies.
Societies in which the official unemployment rate stands at 10% or more for generations are societies in which government economic management has failed.
In their recent book Why Nations Fail, the economists Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson suggest that elections – even those that are free and fair – do not necessarily move societies from what they call “extractive” to “inclusive” systems.
Indeed, extraction of a country’s wealth for use by the elite can occur even in democratic societies when those who dominate the political system face no constraints other than periodic elections.
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