Macroeconomics

18 Dec 2015  |  Global  |  Mega Trends

The Global Future of Work—The Future Place and Structure of Work

Trade, Technology, and Transparency to Shape the Workplace in 2025

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The Global Future of Work—The Future Place and Structure of Work applies a multi-faceted approach to answering the question: where will work take place in 2025? Topics include international trends, such as mega-regional trade deals and right-shoring considerations; workplace design and format trends, such as smart offices and innovative retail sp...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a vast and complex space which is attracting increasing investment across vertical markets. This executive brief provides an update of the IoT market, highlighting strategic events during H1 2015. It identifies key market trends, tracks the areas with most activity, and highlights the top providers.

Between 2012 and 2014, over 70 global companies that were valued at more than $1 billion were start-ups with unique and transformative new business models. During the same period, most business model innovators have managed to produce consistently profitable returns with a high average revenue gain. The keys to these success stories have been conne...

The MENA investment tracker provides a quarterly snapshot of the investment activity in Middle East and North African region. It analyses investment activity on a quarter-on-quarter basis in terms of the number and value of projects. The data is segmented by different industries, regions, stages of implementation, types of ownership, and types of p...

The growth outlook of Q2 2015 for Emerging Middle East and African remains strong undeterred by the shrinkage in oil revenue. Declining oil prices aggravate the essence of diversification and thus, non-oil sectors like agriculture, banking, finance and tourism are anticipated to play a substantial role in the progress of the economy in H2 2015. Rap...

The research service exhibits visionary thinking by identifying and analyzing one of the significant Mega Trends: Future of Infrastructure. "Smart" as a value proposition has been increasingly replacing green concepts, with innumerable smart innovations in the infrastructure space. This study highlights examples of projects, companies, and technolo...

The Global Future of Work—The Future Labor Force investigates emerging Mega Trends shaping 2025's labor market outlook. Analysis includes social implications, such as the size and composition of the future labor force; economic implications, such as wage and benefits comparisons; and political implications, such as international labor goals and h...

Robust improvement in consumption demand, generous government support, and improvement in public sector spending on infrastructure are expected to register steady growth in the Middle East and Africa in 2015. However, pragmatic macroeconomic policies to stabilize the global oil price fluctuations at $50to $60 per barrel in 2015 are likely to remain...

Economic recovery of the Middle Eastern economies is anticipated to be weaker in H1 2014 because of the increase in regional security concerns, ongoing political unrest, weak economic policies, and sluggish recovery of the global economy. Fiscal and external deficits will remain major areas of concern, especially in countries most adversely affecte...