The Global Digital Skills Gap
What is driving the digital skills gap and how organisations could address the issue ?
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Who pays for the cost of climate change?
Climate change is making natural disasters like fires, floods, heatwaves and drought more frequent and more extreme.
In today’s episode we discuss a levy on fossil fuels to help pay for the damage.
What ‘no-fly zone’ really means
It’s a plea that has been heard around the world: Ukraine wants its allies to set up a no-fly zone in its airspace.
But so NATO, U.S. President Joe Biden and other leaders have decisively said no to the idea.
Dr. Stacie Pettyjohn is a senior fellow and director of the defence program at the Center for a New American Security.
She talks us through the complexities of the no-fly zone concept.
Challenges in the post-COVID global economic recovery
Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly, vice president and director of the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings, addresses the divergent paths between wealthy countries and the developing world in the post-COVID-19 economic recovery.
French Connection: Macron’s plans for Europe
Recently, French president Emmanuel Marcon presented a massive investment plan – “France 2030”.
The roadmap sketches out France’s digital and green transformation and is meant to set up the country – as well as Europe – for growth and success ahead of the French EU Council presidency.
What can German reunification teach the UK about levelling up?
When Germany reunified in 1990, productivity in the former East was just 60% of that in the West and people in places such as Leipzig and Dresden were less prosperous than those in Frankfurt or Munich.
Over the last three decades the German Federal Government has worked to close this gap and, though it still exists, prosperity and economic productivity in the former East Germany has now almost caught up with the West.