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There are over 550 articles on this site...The issues discussed range from trade, poverty and globalization, to human rights, geopolitics, the environment, and much more. Spread over these articles, there are over 7,000 links to external articles, web sites, reports and analysis to help provide credence to the arguments made on this web site.

A guide to facts and views on major or future trends.

The 15 Global Challenges provide a framework to assess the global and local prospects for humanity. Their description, with a range of views and actions to addressed each, enriched with regional views and progress assessments are updated each year since 1996 and published in the annual State of the Future. The short description of the challenges appears in the print version of the report, while a detailed, more complex one is on the CD-ROM that accompanies the report. On the CD, each challenge is presented in much details, with extended regional views, actions to address the challenge and indicators to measure progress. The list below links to the short overview of each challenge and the invitation to help update them.

Global Action for Children is a nonpartisan, results-oriented coalition dedicated to advocating for orphans and highly vulnerable children in the developing world. GAC works to increase funding and ensure it is spent effectively so all children have the health care, education, food, and protection they need to grow up safe and healthy.

Henry Ford once said 'Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.' And yet a sound understanding of the underlying issues is essential to making effective business decisions. This section of the site contains a series of briefings on key aspects of sustainable development, presented from a business perspective. For each subject, a link is provided to further internet resources.