Reimagining Growth

With limited fiscal space and monetary policy tools at their disposal, policymakers will need to look towards new frontiers and sources for growth. Innovation will play a central role in fully achieving global economic recovery and avoiding the spectre of a “Tepid Twenties” marked by slow growth, record-high debt levels and depleted fiscal buffers. Looking ahead, the digital economy already accounts for over 15.5% of global GDP and could form the basis for up to 70% of all the new value created in the global economy over the next decade. Yet, headwinds and structural vulnerabilities continue to counterbalance the more positive economic signs of a potential soft landing. Reviving and reimagining growth is critical to building stronger and more resilient economies. How can we identify the new sources of growth in this new global economy?

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  • Demographics, What Next?

    Demographics, What Next?

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Masood Ahmed, Niall Ferguson

  • Banks: Change on All Fronts?

    Banks: Change on All Fronts?

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Joumanna Bercetche, Mary Callahan Erdoes, Sheikh Bandar Bin Mohammed Bin Saoud Al-Thani, C.S. "Venkat" Venkatakrishnan, Robin Vince, Bill Winters

  • Mapping Solutions for: Productivity

    Mapping Solutions for: Productivity

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Isabella M. Weber

  • The Geoeconomics of Energy and Materials

    The Geoeconomics of Energy and Materials

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Fatih Birol, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Meghan O'Sullivan, Jonathan Price, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, Tengku Muhammad Taufik

  • Future of Growth

    Future of Growth

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Faisal Alibrahim, Ana Botín, Adena Friedman, Steve Sedgwick

  • Trade Tech: Delivering for People

    Trade Tech: Delivering for People

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Ville Tavio

  • Finding Growth in Uncertain Times

    Finding Growth in Uncertain Times

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, David M. Rubenstein, Marcus Wallenberg

  • Brazil: More Action Ahead?

    Brazil: More Action Ahead?

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Luís Roberto Barroso, Ilona Szabó de Carvalho, Luana Marques Garcia Ozemela

  • New Development Actors for the 21st Century

    New Development Actors for the 21st Century

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Anna Bjerde, Mirek Dušek, Badr Jafar, Ernesto Torres Cantu

  • Demystifying Industrial Policy

    Demystifying Industrial Policy

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Kimberly Clausing, Vincent Clerc, Dani Rodrik, Tengku Zafrul Bin Tengku Abdul Aziz, Bob Willen, Martin Wolf

  • Growth: A History and a Reckoning

    Growth: A History and a Reckoning

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Mehreen Khan, Daniel Susskind

  • Back into the Black: How to Ease the Debt Burden?

    Back into the Black: How to Ease the Debt Burden?

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Muhammad Aurangzeb, André Esteves, Simon Freakley, Rebeca Grynspan, Kathleen Kingsbury, Rania Al-Mashat

  • US Economy in 2025

    US Economy in 2025

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Gerard Baker, Rich Lesser, Brian Moynihan, James Quincey

  • Africa’s Economy: Young and Fast

    Africa’s Economy: Young and Fast

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Duma Gideon Boko, Leila Fourie, Wamkele Keabetswe Mene, Godfrey Mutizwa, Samaila Zubairu

  • Leaving Asia's Comfort Zone

    Leaving Asia's Comfort Zone

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Haslinda Amin, Milton Cheng, Gan Kim Yong, Martha Sazon

  • Decoding China's Economy: Present and Future

    Decoding China's Economy: Present and Future

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Bonnie Y Chan, Hou Qijun, Michael Süss, Tian Wei, Zhu Min

  • Russia: What Next?

    Russia: What Next?

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Ravi Agrawal, Valdis Dombrovskis, Elisabeth Svantesson

  • Enlarge to Prosper: Will Europe Grow?

    Enlarge to Prosper: Will Europe Grow?

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Marta Kos, Andrej Plenković, Milojko Spajić, Andrii Sybiha, Sasha Vakulina

  • Emerging Economies amid Shocks

    Emerging Economies amid Shocks

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Jacob Aarup-Andersen, Gita Gopinath, Mohammed Al-Jadaan, Odile Françoise Renaud-Basso, Bob Sternfels

  • Open Forum: Balancing the Scales

    Open Forum: Balancing the Scales

    75 minutes

    Speakers: Sharon Block, Chantal Line Carpentier, Katherine Garrett-Cox, Anis Kallel, Melvyn Lubega

  • Mass Events, Massive Gains?

    Mass Events, Massive Gains?

    45 minutes

    Speakers: H.H. Sheikha Latifa Bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Patrice Louvet, Anna Marks, Sir Martin Sorrell, Spriha Srivastava

  • Sticking with Start-ups

    Sticking with Start-ups

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Brian Sozzi, Hemant Taneja

  • Where Are Interest Rates Going?

    Where Are Interest Rates Going?

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Joumanna Bercetche, Ronald P. O'Hanley, Nicolai Tangen, Isabella M. Weber

  • Chief Economists' Briefing: What to Expect in 2025?

    Chief Economists' Briefing: What to Expect in 2025?

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Fernando Honorato Barbosa, Karen Harris, Sebastian Matthes, Gilles Moëc

  • Industrial Clusters as Energy Pioneers

    Industrial Clusters as Energy Pioneers

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Sara Aagesen Muñoz, Orlando E. Cabrales Segovia, Juliet Mann, Rosan Perkasa Roeslani, Jacques Vandermeiren

  • Can Financial Systems Withstand the Next Crisis?

    Can Financial Systems Withstand the Next Crisis?

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Sergio P. Ermotti, Suzan Kereere, Francine Lacqua, Lim Chow-Kiat, Raghuram G. Rajan

  • Private for Longer

    Private for Longer

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Mark Benedetti, Bejul Somaia, Jo Taylor, Anne Walsh

  • Learning from Services

    Learning from Services

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Masood Ahmed, Anthony F. Fernandes, Michael T. Fries, Arancha Gonzalez Laya, Majid Al-Kasabi, Jumoke Oduwole

  • Rise of Economic Nationalism

    Rise of Economic Nationalism

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Oliver Bäte, Rebeca Grynspan, Dani Rodrik, Andrew Serwer

  • Back to Basics: Getting Public Infrastructure Right

    Back to Basics: Getting Public Infrastructure Right

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Arjun Dhawan, Deborah Flint, Sun Chanthol, Aja Whitaker Moore

  • Sharing Data amid Fracture

    Sharing Data amid Fracture

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Clara Chappaz, Øyvind Eriksen, Yutaka Sasaki, Jennifer Schenker

  • Is Latin America's Economic Tide Turning?

    Is Latin America's Economic Tide Turning?

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Fernando Honorato Barbosa, Victor Bisono Haza, Arancha Gonzalez Laya, Linda Kirkpatrick, Demian Reidel

  • Beyond Crisis: Unlocking Europe's Potential

    Beyond Crisis: Unlocking Europe's Potential

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Belen Garijo, Nicolas Hieronimus, Roula Khalaf, Christine Lagarde

  • Climate Finance: More Actors, More Tools

    Climate Finance: More Actors, More Tools

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Ray Dalio, Beatriz Martin Jimenez, Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara, Lutfey Siddiqi, Chavalit Frederick Tsao

  • Navigating the Fiscal Squeeze

    Navigating the Fiscal Squeeze

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Kimberly Clausing, Stephanie Flanders, Gita Gopinath, Ali Ahmed Al Kuwari, Mthuli Ncube, David Schwimmer

  • Mapping Solutions for: Productivity

    Mapping Solutions for: Productivity

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Isabella M. Weber

  • Long View on MENA's Growth

    Long View on MENA's Growth

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Ahmed Galal Ismail, Lara Habib, Jack Hidary, Mohammed Al-Jadaan, Ahmed Kouchouk

  • Europe: Finding the Money

    Europe: Finding the Money

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Nadia Calviño, Jörg Kukies, Annette Mosman, Charles Pellegrin, Elisabeth Svantesson

  • Not Losing Sight of Soft Power

    Not Losing Sight of Soft Power

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Yana Peel, Paetongtarn Shinawatra

  • Stemming Financial Fragmentation

    Stemming Financial Fragmentation

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Jon Huntsman Jr, Paul Chan Mo-po, Javier Pérez-Tasso, David M. Rubenstein, Allison Schrager, Challa Sreenivasulu Setty

  • India's Economic Blueprint

    India's Economic Blueprint

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Sanjiv Bajaj, Shobana Kamineni, Rahul Kanwal, Ashwini Vaishnaw

  • Markets: Dealing with Divergence

    Markets: Dealing with Divergence

    45 minutes

    Speakers: José Luis Escrivá, Jonathan Ferro, William Ford, Kathryn Koch, Lynn Martin, Christian Ulbrich

  • Hacking Trade and Investment

    Hacking Trade and Investment

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Miishe Addy-Asare, Muhammad Aurangzeb, Mounir Nakhla, Deemah Al Yahya, Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi

  • How to Project Europe's Power

    How to Project Europe's Power

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Arancha Gonzalez Laya, Nikol Pashinyan, Patrick Pouyanné, Maroš Šefčovič

  • Big Ideas from Small Economies

    Big Ideas from Small Economies

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Helene Budliger Artieda, Ricardo Hausmann, Juliet Mann, Tan Chong Meng, Tshering Tobgay

  • Saudi Arabia's Economic Shifts

    Saudi Arabia's Economic Shifts

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Faisal Alibrahim, Laurence D. Fink, Kristalina Georgieva, Mohammed Al-Jadaan, Francine Lacqua, Abdullah bin Amer Al Swaha

  • Changing Nature of Trade

    Changing Nature of Trade

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Gan Kim Yong, Raj Kumar, Henadi Al Saleh

  • What Is Sci-Fi, What Is High-Tech?

    What Is Sci-Fi, What Is High-Tech?

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Nita Farahany, Anthony Jules, Thomas Oxley, Raquel Urtasun, Yossi Vardi

  • Generation Uncertain

    Generation Uncertain

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Olajumoke Adekeye, Davy Deng, Tony Frangie Mawad, Shehrbano Jamali Niazi, Gyri Reiersen

  • The Global Economic Outlook

    The Global Economic Outlook

    60 minutes

    Speakers: Faisal Alibrahim, Sara Eisen, Laurence D. Fink, Kristalina Georgieva, Christine Lagarde, Tharman Shanmugaratnam