Op-Ed: How the pandemic is speeding up global change
Print The world of 2030 will be radically different from the one most of us were born into, and the global pandemic will only speed up this timeline. Some of the changes on the horizon: Africa’s population will top East Asia’s for the first time, there will be more grandparents than grandchildren, more than half of the world’s net worth will belong to women, and China will be the world’s largest economy and consumer market. These trends will bring about fundamental realignments in consumer, labor and financial markets, as well as in global economics and geopolitics. Many of the change...